Envy, sanctuary insight, and the nearness of God: Sanctuary perspective and unstable prosperity

The speaker refuses to make private despair into public poison

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. The envy of 73:1-14 is not baptized as a teaching program. Asaph will not hand the next generation a doctrine that God cannot see. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. The puzzle is not solved by harder thinking.

Sanctuary does not scold the envy; it changes the horizon

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. The turn is liturgical and perspectival, not a lecture that shame would have done better. In the holy place the speaker sees what the street concealed: Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Unstable prosperity is seen from worship, not from a spectator's hunger for a crash. The wicked remain responsible for oppression; their end is God's, not a show for the righteous. This unit still does not promise wealth to the pure, and it does not invite readers to enjoy a neighbor's collapse.