⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn your statutes.

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.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

³² But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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.

⁹ Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob 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 sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.