What Does Psalm 73:17 Mean?
Until I enter the set-apart place of God, and then I understand their aftermath.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.THE KEY
The word translated “end” means what comes after, so the sanctuary opens sight beyond the present moment.
THE MEANING
The reader can be caught measuring life by what appears to prosper now. In God’s sanctuary, the view reaches beyond the visible moment, and the after-state comes into focus. What seems like the whole story is only its present scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Present prosperity proves that a life is secure and going well.
THE ROOT
אַחֲרִיתָם
ʾaḥaritam
GROWS FROM
אחר
ʾ-ḥ-r
After, behind, later.
“aftermath” in this verse is ʾaḥaritam. The word for “end” carries the sense of what comes after. The sanctuary brings the hidden after-state into view, changing how the present scene reads.
ALSO GROWS
ʾaḥarit: Latter end, outcome.
אַחֲרִית
It names the outcome that the verse says becomes understandable.
ʾaḥaron: Last, latter.
אַחֲרוֹן
It carries the same “after” sense, showing that an end is what follows.
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
Set apart.
The sanctuary is named from the root for setting apart. Entering this set-apart place coincides with seeing beyond the measures of the present scene.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: Set-apartness; what is set apart.
קֹדֶשׁ
It shares the sanctuary’s root and shows the quality carried by the place.
qadosh: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
It is the same root expressed as a quality, linking sanctuary with what is set apart.
THE PATTERN
A present appearance is incomplete until its outcome is seen.
Watch the blameless one, and see the straight one, for the end of that man is wholeness.There is a way straight before a man, but its latter end is the ways of death.But Abraham said, Child, remember that in your life you received your good things in full, and Lazarus likewise his harms; but now he is comforted, and you are pained.THE THREAD
Watch the blameless one, and see the straight one, for the end of that man is wholeness.Both verses use אַחֲרִית (ʾaḥarit, what comes after) for “end.” Psalm 37:37 shows the outcome of the upright as peace, extending the view beyond whatever the present appears to promise.
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