Psalm 73:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You will make them stumble, never to get up again.

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Make them run in the dark on a slippery road, as your angel chases them.

Wicked people are enemies of the LORD and will vanish like smoke from a field on fire.

The LORD will hold your hand, and if you stumble, you still won't fall.

But what about those people who are cruel and brutal? You will throw them down into the deepest pit long before their time. I trust you, LORD!

Though the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.

But you will rule over all of us for ever,

You will pay back my enemies, and you will wipe them out for the evil they did.

Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Soon our enemies will get what they deserve— suddenly they will slip, and total disaster will quickly follow.

Their punishment will be eternal destruction, and they will be kept far from the presence of our Lord and his glorious strength.