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

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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 slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.(A)

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

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

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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 for the day of vengeance[a] and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine

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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These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,(A)

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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 repay them for their iniquity
    and wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.(A)

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

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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, will cast them down
    into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
    shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.(A)

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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 I have seen the wicked oppressing
    and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.[a](A)
36 Again I[b] passed by, and they were no more;
    though I sought them, they could not be found.(B)

37 Mark the blameless and behold the upright,
    for there is posterity for the peaceable.(C)
38 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;
    the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.35 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 37.36 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb he

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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Footnotes

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

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

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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 though we stumble, we[a] shall not fall headlong,
    for the Lord holds us[b] by the hand.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.24 Heb he stumbles, he
  2. 37.24 Heb him

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

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