Psalms 119:67

Before affliction the psalmist went astray, but now he keeps God's word. It matters because God can use suffering to draw wandering hearts back to obedience.

Cross-references · 15

• Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
• Heb 12:5–11And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• Jer 22:21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
• Prov 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• 2 Sam 11:2–27And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• 2 Sam 10:19And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
• Ps 73:5–28They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

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