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

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

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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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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

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

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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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