18 Truly you set them in (A)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.

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18 Surely you place them on slippery ground;(A)
    you cast them down to ruin.(B)

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Let their way be dark and (A)slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

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may their path be dark and slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

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12 (A)Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths (B)in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    (C)in the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

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12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,(B)
declares the Lord.

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35 (A)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[a]
    (B)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for (C)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint and I will repay

35 It is mine to avenge;(A) I will repay.(B)
    In due time their foot will slip;(C)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.(D)

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They will suffer the punishment of (A)eternal destruction, (B)away from[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Or destruction that comes from

They will be punished with everlasting destruction(A) and shut out from the presence of the Lord(B) and from the glory of his might(C)

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23 He will bring back on them (A)their iniquity
    and (B)wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.

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23 He will repay(A) them for their sins
    and destroy(B) them for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will destroy them.

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that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
    and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

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that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.(A)

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23 But you, O God, (A)will cast them down
    into (B)the pit of destruction;
men of (C)blood and treachery
    shall not (D)live out half their days.
But I will (E)trust in you.

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23 But you, God, will bring down the wicked
    into the pit(A) of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful(B)
    will not live out half their days.(C)

But as for me, I trust in you.(D)

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35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]
36 But he passed away,[b] and behold, (C)he was no more;
    though I sought him, he could not be found.

37 Mark the blameless and behold the upright,
    for there is a future for the man of (D)peace.
38 But (E)transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;
    the future of the wicked (F)shall be cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
  2. Psalm 37:36 Or But one passed by

35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
    flourishing(A) like a luxuriant native tree,
36 but he soon passed away and was no more;
    though I looked for him, he could not be found.(B)

37 Consider the blameless,(C) observe the upright;(D)
    a future awaits those who seek peace.[a](E)
38 But all sinners(F) will be destroyed;(G)
    there will be no future[b] for the wicked.(H)

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  1. Psalm 37:37 Or upright; / those who seek peace will have posterity
  2. Psalm 37:38 Or posterity

20 But the wicked will perish;
    the enemies of the Lord are like (A)the glory of the pastures;
    they vanish—like (B)smoke they vanish away.

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20 But the wicked will perish:(A)
    Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field,
    they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.(B)

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24 (A)though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,
    for the Lord (B)upholds his hand.

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24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,(A)
    for the Lord upholds(B) him with his hand.

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