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Psalms 73:19

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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אֵ֤יךְeykhhowאֵיךְparticle, interrogative — “how”H349how? or how!; also wherehow, what.הָי֣וּhayvbeהָיָהverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “be”, a completed actionH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.לְשַׁמָּ֣הleshamahto astonishmentשַׁמָּהpreposition, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “to astonishment”, the ordinary formH8047ruin; by implication, consternationastonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.כְרָ֑גַעkheragaas spaceרֶגַעpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “as space”, the ordinary formH7281a wink (of the eyes), i.e. a very short space of timeinstant, moment, space, suddenly.סָ֥פוּsafvconsumeסוּףverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “consume”, a completed actionH5486to snatch away, i.e. terminateconsume, have an end, perish, [idiom] be utterly.תַ֝֗מּוּtamvaccomplishתָּמַםverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “accomplish”, a completed actionH8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitiveaccomplish, cease, be clean (pass-) ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, [idiom] be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.מִןminfromמִןpreposition — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.בַּלָּהֽוֹתbalahotterrorבַּלָּהָהnoun, common, feminine, plural, absolute — “terror”, the ordinary formH1091alarm; hence, destructionterror, trouble.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.

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American Standard Version (1901)

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Young’s Literal Translation

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.

World English Bible

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Darby Translation

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

Douay-Rheims

Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Πῶς ἐγένοντο εἰς ἐρήμωσιν; ἐξάπινα ἐξέλιπον, ἀπώλοντο διὰ τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν.