Holy Scripture
Psalms 73:17
A church father on this verse
“But because he later recognized, as he says in the same psalm: I strove to understand, and he added: This was an oppressive task to me, why the wicked are happy, this was an oppressive task to me, he says, until I entered the sanctuary of God and understood their final destiny, because to the wicked, happiness is give…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and spring.
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In context
15Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16The day is thine, and the night is thine; Thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.
— Psalms 73:17 —
18Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, And a foolish people has provoked thy name.
19Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: Forget not forever the souls of thy poor.