Psalms 73:20As a dream when one awaketh.The sleep and dream of ungodly menI. The ungodly are asleep. Not physically but spiritually.II. In this sleep they dream. They fancy the world and its joys are real, abiding, secure, satisfying.III. At death they awake. Their all is in this world, and lo, death comes and strips them of all they valued, as a dream of one awaking. How much better to have this awakening here! (W. Harris.) read more
Psa 73:16 When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me; Ver. 16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ] Heb. it was labour in mine eyes, labour in vain, I could do no good on it, sed labyrinthis et Maeandris inextricabilibus implicabar, I did but tread a maze, for God’s judgments are unsearchable, and his ways (of providence) are past finding out; they are far above the reach of human reason. read more
Psa 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I their end. Ver. 17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God ] And there consulted with the Scriptures, heard the lectures of the law, prayed, went through all the exercises of God’s school. Then understood I their end ] To be such as God pronounceth of them in the Scriptures, and as the effect and common experience sometimes declareth. For some wicked God punisheth here, lest his providence, but not all, lest his patience... read more
Psa 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. Ver. 18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ] Where they can have no more certainty than if they went upon the smoothest ice, or walked upon a mine of gunpowder. The Turks, seeing so few of their viziers to die in their beds, have taken up this proverb, He that is even in the greatest office is but a statue of glass. Thou castedst them down into destruction ] Improbos ex magna... read more
Psa 73:19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. Ver. 19. How are they brought into desolation! &c. ] Such as the psalmist expresseth by an exclamation, caused by an admiration at God’s dreadfull judgments which his faith beheld as present and unavoidable, and such as astonied the beholders. See it in the literal and mystical Babylon, Jeremiah 51:37 ; Jeremiah 51:41 Revelation 18:10 ; Revelation 18:17 . They are utterly consumed... read more
Psa 73:20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Ver. 20. As a dream when one awaketh ] Such is the wicked man’s pomp and bravery, know, what are dreams but pleasant follies and delusions, the empty bubbles of the mind, children and tales of fancy, idle and fruitless notions, mere baubles? See Isaiah 29:7-8 . The fisherman in Theocritus dreamt that he was some demi-god; but when he awaked all his golden hopes vanished ( Sic Mycillus... read more
When: Psalms 36:6, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 97:2, Proverbs 30:2, Proverbs 30:3, Ecclesiastes 8:17, Romans 11:33 too painful for me: Heb. labour in mine eyes, Psalms 39:6, Luke 18:32-Nahum :, John 16:18, John 16:19 Reciprocal: Genesis 43:18 - the men Job 24:1 - not see Job 37:19 - we Habakkuk 2:1 - stand Acts 8:31 - How read more
Until: Psalms 27:4, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 77:13, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:130 then: Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:38, Job 27:8, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Jeremiah 5:31, Luke 12:20, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:35 - their foot 2 Chronicles 30:8 - enter into Esther 7:6 - was afraid Job 37:19 - we Psalms 20:2 - from Psalms 37:2 - General Ezekiel 35:11 - and I Daniel 11:4 - he shall stand Habakkuk 2:1 - stand Acts 8:31 - How Romans 6:21 - for the read more
Surely: Psalms 35:6, Deuteronomy 32:35, Jeremiah 23:12 thou castedst: Psalms 37:20, Psalms 37:24, Psalms 37:35-Zechariah :, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 94:23, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Reciprocal: Judges 20:21 - destroyed 2 Samuel 15:10 - reigneth 1 Kings 1:41 - Wherefore 2 Chronicles 22:12 - Athaliah Job 5:3 - taking Job 8:18 - he Job 15:21 - in prosperity Job 20:5 - the triumphing Job 24:17 - in the terrors Job 24:18 - swift Job 31:3 - destruction Psalms 35:8 - Let destruction Psalms 37:10... read more
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The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:16-17
Psalms 73:16-17When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.The rectifying influence of the sanctuaryIt is not perfectly clear what is here meant by “the sanctuary of God”; literally it means “the holies of God.” A few would understand it in the first sense as designating “the righteous plans of God’s government,” or “the secret grounds of his dealings with men”; while others would take it, in the second sense, as... read more