Isaiæ 23:12

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Idcirco via eorum erit quasi lubricum in tenebris:
impellentur enim, et corruent in ea:
afferam enim super eos mala,
annum visitationis eorum, ait Dominus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et dixit : Non adjicies ultra ut glorieris, calumniam sustinens virgo filia Sidonis : in Cethim consurgens transfreta : ibi quoque non erit requies tibi.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Idcirco via eorum erit quasi lubricum; in tenebras proicientur et cadent in eis; afferam enim super eos mala, annum visitationis eorum, ait Dominus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as: Jeremiah 13:16, Psalms 35:6, Psalms 73:18, Proverbs 4:19

in the: Job 18:18, Isaiah 8:22, John 12:35, 1 John 2:11, Jude 1:13

the year: Jeremiah 11:23, Jeremiah 23:12, Jeremiah 48:44, Jeremiah 50:27, Exodus 32:34, Micah 7:4

Reciprocal: Job 19:8 - set Jeremiah 6:15 - therefore Jeremiah 11:11 - I will bring Hosea 4:9 - like people

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness,.... Their course of life may fitly be compared, and in the issue will prove to be like to a man's walking in a dark night without any lamp or lantern to light him, and in a slippery way, scarce able to stand upon his legs, and cannot see to pick his way, nor where to step next, which is very uncomfortable and dangerous; such are blind leaders of the blind, and both in danger of slipping and falling into a ditch, Matthew 15:14;

they shall be driven on, and fall therein; hurried on by Satan, and their own lusts, in their sinful ways to their ruin; or forced on into captivity and destruction; their enemies and the just judgments of God pursuing them, like a man pursued by others in a dark and slippery way; who cannot stand to feel his way, but is obliged to go on, though he can scarce keep upon his legs, and knows not where to set his foot next; see Psalms 35:6;

for I will bring evil upon them: the evil of punishment, which is from the Lord; as sword, famine, pestilence, or captivity:

[even] the year of their visitation, saith the Lord: the precise and exact time appointed by the Lord to visit them in a way of judgment for their iniquities; which was a set time that would certainly come, and they could not escape; and which may not only respect the time of the Babylonish captivity, but the destruction of the Jews by the Romans, which was the time of their visitation, Luke 19:44.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every word denotes the certainty of their fall. “Their path is like slippery places in darkness:” and on this path “they are pushed with violence.” External circumstances assist in urging on to ruin those who choose the path of vice.