⁶⁶ The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed. ⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept. ⁶⁸ Good Thou art, and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.

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Jeremiah 31:18-19

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

Psalm 119:71

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

Psalm 119:75

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

Deuteronomy 32:15

And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

2 Samuel 10:19

And all the kings -- servants of Hadadezer -- see that they have been smitten before Israel, and make peace with Israel, and serve them; and Aram is afraid to help any more the Bene-Ammon.

2 Samuel 11:2-27

and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

2 Chronicles 33:9-13

And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

Psalm 73:5-28

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

Psalm 119:176

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

Jeremiah 22:21

I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, 'I do not hearken,' This is thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.

Hosea 2:6-7

Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

Hosea 5:15-1

I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

Hebrews 12:5-11

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

Revelation 3:10

'Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

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