I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- BSB I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- NKJV I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- NASB I know, Lord, that Your judgments are righteous, And that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.
- NLT I know, O Lord, that your regulations are fair; you disciplined me because I needed it.
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Quick answer
The psalmist confesses that God's judgments are righteous and that even his affliction came from God's faithfulness, not cruelty. Trials are part of a loving Father's faithful dealing.
Overview
Here is a mature confession that suffering is not evidence against God's goodness but an expression of His faithful care. The psalmist submits to the righteousness of God's ways even when they are painful, trusting that affliction is purposeful discipline. Scripture affirms that the Lord disciplines those He loves, and that for believers all things work for good (Heb. 12:6; Rom. 8:28).
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- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Heb 12:10–11For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
- Ps 89:30–33If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- Rom 3:4–5God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
- Ps 119:7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
- Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Job 34:23For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
- Ps 119:160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Ps 119:62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
- Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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