Psalm 73:27

27 For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

Psalm 73:27 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 73:27

For, lo, they that are far from thee
Who are alienated from the life of God, far from the law of God, and subjection and obedience to it; and from righteousness either moral or evangelical, and from the love and fear of God, and worship of him:

shall perish;
not merely at death, as even righteous men do, but be lost eternally:

thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee;
that follow after other gods, and worship them; which is spiritual adultery and fornication, the Scriptures often speak of, and intend by it idolatry; see ( Deuteronomy 31:16 ) or who set their hearts and affections upon the creature, and have them alienated from God; and love the creature more and besides the Creator: the past tense seems to be put for the future, and so some render it, "thou shalt destroy", or "cut off" ^F9; destroy them soul and body, and punish them with an everlasting destruction in hell; the Targum is,

``that wander from thy fear;''

that is, from the worship of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (htmuh) "perdes", Tigurine version, Musculus, so some in Vatablus; "exscindes", Michaelis.

Psalm 73:27 In-Context

25 Whom do I have in the heavens [except you]? And with you I have no [other] desire on earth.

26 My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.

27 For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

28 But as for me, the approach to God [is] for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh [as] my refuge, in order to tell all your works.