Psalms 73:27 - Exposition

For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish. As God is the source of all life, to be "far from him" is to perish—to have this life depart from us, even if existence of any kind remains. The psalmist is vague with respect to the ultimate fate of the wicked, confident only of the continued existence, in a condition which he declares to be "good," of the righteous. Thou hast destroyed all them that go a-whoring from thee. The strong phrase here used is rare in the Psalms, occurring only in this place and in Psalms 106:39 . It commonly refers to idolatrous practices, but is used sometimes of other kinds of declension and alienation from God (see Le Psalms 20:6 ; Numbers 14:33 ).