Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Parallel translations
- KJV Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- BSB Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- NKJV Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
- NASB You indeed put them on slippery ground; You dropped them into ruin.
- NLT Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.
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- Jer 23:12Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
- Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
- Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Ps 94:23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
- 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
- Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
- Ps 37:20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish — vanish like smoke.
- Ps 37:35–38I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
- Ps 37:24Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
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