How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Parallel translations
- WEB How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- BSB How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- ESV How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
- NKJV Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
- NASB How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
- NLT In an instant they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors.
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Quick answer
The wicked are destroyed in a moment, utterly swept away by terrors.
Overview
What looked like lasting security collapses suddenly and completely. Their downfall is swift and final. This certainty of judgment answers Asaph's envy and warns that earthly prosperity apart from God offers no safety against the day of reckoning.
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- Isa 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
- Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
- Dan 5:6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- Rev 18:10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
- Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Isa 30:13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Num 17:12–13And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Job 20:23–25When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Acts 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
- Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Num 16:21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- Isa 21:3–4Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- 1 Sam 28:20Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
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