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 31:18–19“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• Heb 12:5–11and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Jer 22:21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.
• Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• 2 Sam 11:2–27At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
• 2 Sam 10:19When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
• Ps 73:5–28They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

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