Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Parallel translations
- KJV Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
- BSB until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
- NKJV Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end.
- NASB Until I entered the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
- NLT Then I went into your sanctuary, O God, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked.
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- 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?’
- Ps 77:13Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- Eccl 8:12–13Though 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.
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
- Ps 37:37–38Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- Ps 63:2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Ps 119:130The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
- Luke 16:22–23The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
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