Psalms 73:17
Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
In Context
16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
Cross References
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
Psalms 37:37Keep innocence, and behold justice : for there are remnants for the peaceable man.
Psalms 77:13And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions.
Ecclesiastes 8:12But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.
Luke 12:20But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:16-21
The End of the Wicked. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →