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Psalm 73

Psa. 73:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For, lo, they that are far
racheq (Hebrew #7369)
remote
KJV usage: that are far.
Pronounce: raw-khake'
Origin: from 7368
from thee shall perish
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
: thou hast destroyed
tsamath (Hebrew #6789)
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
Pronounce: tsaw-math'
Origin: a primitive root
all them that go a whoring
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
from thee.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 119:155• 155Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy statutes. (Psa. 119:155)
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Job 21:14‑15• 14And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? (Job 21:14‑15)
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Isa. 29:13• 13And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men; (Isa. 29:13)
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Jer. 12:2• 2Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:2)
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Matt. 15:7‑8• 7Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,
 8This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me; (Matt. 15:7‑8)
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Eph. 2:13,17• 13but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.
 17and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh. (Eph. 2:13,17)
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Ex. 34:15• 15lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice, (Ex. 34:15)
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Num. 15:39• 39and it shall be unto you for a tassel, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye seek not after the lusts of your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye go a whoring; (Num. 15:39)
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James 4:4• 4Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God. (James 4:4)
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Rev. 17:1‑5• 1And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;
 2with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
 3And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
 4And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;
 5and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth. (Rev. 17:1‑5)
• Those who live far from God will come under judgment. (“Psalms 73” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.