And I kept thinking how to understand this:

It was misery In mine eyes:

Until I went into the sanctuary of God,

And considered their latter end.

As he kept pondering how to reconcile the facts of experience with the revealed truth of God's character and promises, the sight of the world's disorder seemed intolerable, until in the Temple, the place of God's Presence, where He reveals His power and glory (Psalms 63:2), he was enabled to realise the transitoriness of the prosperity of the wicked, and their nothingness in the sight of God. The sanctuary(lit. as in Psalms 68:35, sanctuaries) is to be understood literally: the explanation of it as "the sacred mysteries of God's Providence" (cp. Wis 2:22) is attractive but too fanciful.

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