...the Lord ; " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn 'thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. If they are bound in fetters and holden in the cords of affliction, then he sheweth them their work,...

...the Lord ; " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. If they are bound in fetters and holden in the cords of affliction, then he sheweth them their work,...

...thou, 0 God, hast " created in me a clean heart, and renewed a right spirit within me." " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word;" and therefore " it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." But not...

...David gratefully acknowledges thai tie derived real benefit from the divine corrections. "Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and thou in faithfulness hath corrected me." Thus God...

...will be — " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Thy statutes. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept Thy Word." . Perhaps here there will occur to the minds of some of my hearers, the following question : — Why...

...subject of it would be heard exclaiming, while the sweet tear of penitence moistened his eye, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy Word." Then would he find that, "like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear...

...and Christian virtues do spring. To this truth the Psalmist bore witness, when he said, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." — " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes."* God called his...

...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : for [ have believed thy commandments. 6? Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept thy word. 68 Thou art good, and doest good ; teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me...

...know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. , Remember the word...

...enabled to amend what had been hitherto amiss, and to advance in piety. As he says, ver. 67, " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." There were errors and faults in his conduct, in the time of ease and prosperity, which afflictions...