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Selected Verse: Psalms 73:18 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 73:18 |
Strong Concordance |
Surely thou didst set [07896] them in slippery places [02513]: thou castedst them down [05307] into destruction [04876]. |
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King James |
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| their end--future (Psa 37:37-38), which is dismal and terribly sudden (Pro 1:27; Pro 29:1), aggravated and hastened by terror. As one despises an unsubstantial dream, so God, waking up to judgment (Psa 7:6; Psa 44:23), despises their vain shadow of happiness (Psa 39:6; Isa 29:7). They are thrown into ruins as a building falling to pieces (Psa 74:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places - Not in a solid and permanent position; not where their foothold would be secure, but as on smooth and slippery rocks, where they would be liable any moment to fall into the foaming billows. However prosperous their condition may seem to be now, yet it is a condition of uncertainty and danger, from which they must soon fall into ruin. In their prosperity there is nothing of permanence or Stability; and this fact will explain the difficulty.
Thou castedst them down into destruction - They are placed, not in a permanent condition, but in a condition from which they will be cast down to destruction. Ruin is before them; and the end will demonstrate the justice of God. Nothing can be determined from their present condition as to the question which caused so much perplexity, but in order to a proper solution we must wait to see the end. As an illustration of this, see the interesting account of the interview between Solon of Athens, and Croesus, the rich king of Lydia, as given in Herodotus, book i., 30-33. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Thou didst set them on slippery places - Affluence is a slippery path; few have ever walked in it without falling. It is possible to be faithful in the unrighteous mammon, but it is very difficult. No man should desire riches; for they bring with them so many cares and temptations as to be almost unmanageabe. Rich men, even when pious, are seldom happy; they do not enjoy the consolations of religion. A good man, possessed of very extensive estates, unblamable in his whole deportment, once said to me: "There must be some strange malignity in riches thus to keep me in continual bondage, and deprive me of the consolations of the Gospel." Perhaps to a person to whom his estates are a snare, the words of our Lord may be literally applicable: "Sell what thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up thy cross, and follow me." But he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions! May we not then say with the psalmist, Surely thou digest set them in slippery places, etc.? |
3 Lift up [07311] thy feet [06471] unto the perpetual [05331] desolations [04876]; even all that the enemy [0341] hath done wickedly [07489] in the sanctuary [06944].
7 And the multitude [01995] of all the nations [01471] that fight [06633] against Ariel [0740], even all that fight [06638] against her and her munition [04685], and that distress [06693] her, shall be as a dream [02472] of a night [03915] vision [02377].
6 Surely every man [0376] walketh [01980] in a vain shew [06754]: surely they are disquieted [01993] in vain [01892]: he heapeth up [06651] riches, and knoweth [03045] not who shall gather [0622] them.
23 Awake [05782], why sleepest [03462] thou, O Lord [0136]? arise [06974], cast us not off [02186] for ever [05331].
6 Arise [06965], O LORD [03068], in thine anger [0639], lift up [05375] thyself because of the rage [05678] of mine enemies [06887]: and awake [05782] for me to the judgment [04941] that thou hast commanded [06680].
1 He [0376], that being often reproved [08433] hardeneth [07185] his neck [06203], shall suddenly [06621] be destroyed [07665], and that without remedy [04832].
27 When your fear [06343] cometh [0935] as desolation [07722] [07584], and your destruction [0343] cometh [0857] as a whirlwind [05492]; when distress [06869] and anguish [06695] cometh [0935] upon you.
37 Mark [08104] the perfect [08535] man, and behold [07200] the upright [03477]: for the end [0319] of that man [0376] is peace [07965].
38 But the transgressors [06586] shall be destroyed [08045] together [03162]: the end [0319] of the wicked [07563] shall be cut off [03772].