Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
- KJV Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- NKJV Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, And teach out of Your law,
- NASB ¶Blessed is the man whom You discipline, Lord, And whom You teach from Your Law,
- NLT Joyful are those you discipline, Lord, those you teach with your instructions.
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Quick answer
Blessed is the person whom God disciplines and teaches from His law. God's correction is a gift that leads to true happiness.
Overview
The psalm shifts to a beatitude: the one God trains through discipline and His word is genuinely blessed. Such correction is not rejection but loving formation that produces steadiness amid trouble. The New Testament affirms that the Lord disciplines those He loves as sons, yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Hebrews 12:6-11; Proverbs 3:11-12).
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 3:11–12My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Heb 12:5–11And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Ps 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
- Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
- Job 33:16–25He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
- Deut 8:5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- Mic 6:9The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
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