Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.
New American Standard Bible
But now I keep Your word.
King James Version
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Holman Bible
but now I keep Your word.
International Standard Version
Before I was humbled, I wandered away, but now I observe your words.
A Conservative Version
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe thy word.
American Standard Version
Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.
Amplified
Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep and honor Your word [with loving obedience].
Bible in Basic English
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Darby Translation
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.
Julia Smith Translation
Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.
Modern King James verseion
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Before I was troubled, I went wrong, but now I keep thy word.
NET Bible
Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.
New Heart English Bible
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
The Emphasized Bible
Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.
Webster
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
World English Bible
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Youngs Literal Translation
Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
Themes
Afflictions » Blessings in disguise
Afflictions » Often blessings in disguise
Privileges of saints » Profiting by chastisement
Reproof » God gives reproof to his own children
The scriptures » Saints » Obey
The goodness of the lord » The lord being good
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:67
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:18-19
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.
Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.
Psalm 119:75
I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
2 Samuel 10:19
And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
2 Samuel 11:2-27
And it came to pass in an evening, 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.
2 Chronicles 33:9-13
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the nations, which the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Psalm 73:5-28
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Psalm 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Jeremiah 22:21
I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
Hosea 2:6-7
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
Hosea 5:15-1
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Hebrews 12:5-11
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.