Verse 71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 94:12-13 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law; 13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
• Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
• 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• Heb 12:10-11 : 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
• Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.