Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
In Context
16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Cross References
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalms 77:13Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
Psalms 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
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 →