Psalms 73:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣ךְ בַּ֭חֲלָקוֹת תָּשִׁ֣ית לָ֑מוֹ הִ֝פַּלְתָּ֗ם לְמַשּׁוּאֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

Akh bachalaqot tashit lamo; hippaltam lemashu'ot.

Grammar Details

*Akh*: adverb - surely
*bachalaqot*: preposition + noun, feminine plural - in slippery places
*tashit*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you set/place
*lamo*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - for them
*hippaltam*: verb, hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you cause them to fall
*lemashu'ot*: preposition + noun, feminine plural - to ruins/desolations

Word Meanings

*akh*: surely/only/nevertheless
*chalaqot*: slippery places/smoothness/flattery
*shit*: set/place/put
*lamo*: to them/for them (poetic form)
*hipil*: cause to fall/throw down
*mashu'ot*: ruins/desolations/destruction

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 35:6 : 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.
Ps 37:24 : 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
Ps 37:35-38 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace. 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
Ps 94:23 : 23 And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.
Jer 23:12 : 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

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