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18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places:
Thou castest them down to [a]destruction.
19 How are they become a desolation in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh,
So, O Lord, [b]when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:18 Hebrew ruins.
  2. Psalm 73:20 Or, in the city

18 Surely you place them on slippery ground;(A)
    you cast them down to ruin.(B)
19 How suddenly(C) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away(D) by terrors!
20 They are like a dream(E) when one awakes;(F)
    when you arise, Lord,
    you will despise them as fantasies.(G)

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