⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge; for I have believed Your Commandments. ⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word. ⁶⁸ You are good, and do good; teach me Your Precepts.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:18-19

I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, thick, and satisfied. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

2 Samuel 10:19

And all the kings, the servants of Hadarezer, saw that they were beaten before Israel, and they made peace with Israel and served them. And the Syrians feared to help the sons of Ammon any more.

2 Samuel 11:2-27

And it happened one evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

2 Chronicles 33:9-13

And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to err, to do worse than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Psalm 73:5-28

They are not in trouble like 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 kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed My voice.

Hosea 2:6-7

Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Hosea 5:15-1

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

Hebrews 12:5-11

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.