Psalms 73:19
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
American King James Version (AKJV)
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
American Standard Version (ASV)
How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Webster's Revision
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
World English Bible
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
English Revised Version (ERV)
How are they become a desolation in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Clarke's Psalms 73:19 Bible Commentary
Are they brought into desolation - This is often a literal fact. I have known several cases where persons, very rich, have by sudden losses been brought into desolation as in a moment; in consequence of which they were utterly consumed in terrors.
Barnes's Psalms 73:19 Bible Commentary
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! - How suddenly and unexpectedly does destruction come upon them! Nothing can be argued from their apparent prosperity, for there is no ground of security in "that," no basis for an argument that it will continue. The end must be seen in order to form a correct estimate on the subject, and that end may soon come. Compare the notes at Job 15:20-21.
They are utterly consumed with terrors - literally, "they perish; they are destroyed by terrors;" that is, by terrible things, or by things suited to produce terror in the mind. The idea is not that they are destroyed by their own fears, but that things come upon them which are suited to overwhelm the soul, and that by those things they are utterly destroyed. It is by this result that we are to determine in regard to the equity of the divine administration, and not by their prosperity and their apparent safety.
Wesley's Psalms 73:19 Bible Commentary
73:19 Terrors - With God's dreadful judgements unexpectedly seizing upon them.