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Psalms 73:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me— "

Psalms 73:16

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14 For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

15 If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—

17 until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

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