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Psalms 119:67
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I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I observe thy word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe your word.
Before I suffered, I did wrong, but now I obey your word.
Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep and honor Your word [with loving obedience].
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Bifor that Y was maad meke, Y trespasside; therfor Y kepte thi speche.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
Once you corrected me for not obeying you, but now I obey.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Before I was humbled, I used to go astray; but now I observe your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.
Before I suffered, I did many wrong things. But now I carefully obey everything you say.
Before I was afflicted, I did err; but now I observe Thy word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now haue I kept thy word.
Before I suffered I went the wrong way, but now I obey Your Word.
Before I was humbled I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.
Even before I was humbled I believed; and I kept thy word.
Before you punished me, I used to go wrong, but now I obey your word.
Before I was afflicted, I myself was going astray, but, now, thy word, have I kept.
(118-67) Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word.
Before I felt affliction I swarued out of the way: but nowe I kepe thy word.
Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept thy word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray,but now I keep your word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.
Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.
Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
Before I was troubled, I wente wronge, but now I kepe thy worde.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray,But now I keep Your word.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Before: Psalms 119:176, Psalms 73:5-28, Deuteronomy 32:15, 2 Samuel 10:19, 2 Samuel 11:2-27, 2 Chronicles 33:9-13, Proverbs 1:32, Jeremiah 22:21
but now: Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:75, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, Hosea 2:6, Hosea 2:7, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1, Hebrews 12:10, Hebrews 12:11, Revelation 3:10
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:43 - and they 2 Chronicles 33:19 - before he Job 33:19 - chastened Job 36:9 - he Psalms 94:12 - Blessed Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 27:9 - this therefore Jeremiah 24:5 - them that are carried away captive Ezekiel 14:11 - the house Matthew 20:34 - and they 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh James 1:12 - the man James 4:9 - afflicted
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Before I was afflicted, I went astray,.... From God; from his word, his ways and worship; like a lost sheep from the shepherd, the fold, the flock, and the footsteps of it; see Psalms 119:176; Not that he wilfully, wickedly, maliciously, and through contempt, departed from his God; this he denies, Psalms 18:21; but through the weakness of the flesh, the prevalence of corruption, and force of temptation, and very much through a careless, heedless, and negligent frame of spirit, he got out of the right way, and wandered from it before he was well aware. The word is used of erring through ignorance, Leviticus 5:18; this was in a time of prosperity, when, though he might not, like Jeshurun, wax fat and kick, and forsake and lightly esteem the Rock of his salvation; or fall into temptations and harmful lusts, and err from the faith, and be pierced with many sorrows, as too much love of the world brings men into; yet he might become inattentive to the duties of religion, and be negligent of them, which is a common case;
but now have I kept thy word: having been afflicted with outward and inward afflictions, afflictions of body and mind; afflictions in person, in family and estate; afflictions in soul, through indwelling sin, the temptations of Satan, and the hidings of God's face: all this brought him back again to God, to his word, ways, and worship; he betook himself to reading and hearing the word, if he might find any thing to relieve and comfort him under his trials; he observed the doctrines of grace in it, and kept the precepts of it, and walked in all the commandments and ordinances of it, being restored by afflictions.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Before I was afflicted - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, “Before I was humbled.” The Hebrew word has the general sense of being afflicted, and may refer to any kind of trial.
I went astray - The Hebrew word means to wander; to err; to do wrong; to transgress. Numbers 15:28; Job 12:16. It here means that he forgot his duty; that he fell into sin; that he departed from what was right; that he embraced erroneous views; that he lived in the neglect of his soul, the neglect of duty, and the neglect of God. Prosperity had not led him to fulfill duty; to seek salvation; to trust in God. This was, in his case, as it is in thousands of others, the experience of his life. Hence, affliction often becomes so necessary to check us when we are going astray, and so useful in recalling us to the ways of duty and of truth.
But now have I kept thy word - Since I was afflicted. The effect has been to recall me from my wanderings, and to turn me to paths of duty and holiness. This is an effect often - very often - experienced; this is language which can be used by many a child of God. Of those who are the children of God it may be said that they are “always” benefited “sooner” or “later” by afflictions. It may not be at the time of the affliction (compare Hebrews 12:11), but the “ultimate” effect is in all cases to benefit them. Some error is corrected; some evil habit changed; some mode of life not consistent with religion is forsaken; pride is humbled; the heart is quickened in duty; habits of prayer are resumed or formed; the affections are fixed on a better world; the soul is made more gentle, calm, humble, spiritual, pure. Afflictions are among the most precious means of grace. They are entirely under the direction of God. They may be endlessly varied, and adapted to the case of every individual.
God knows every heart, and the best way to reach any heart. By sickness; by disappointment; by loss of property; by bereavement; by blighted hopes; by the ingratitude of others; by the unkindness of professed friends, and the malice of enemies; by domestic troubles; by the misconduct of children - perhaps the most severe of all human ills, and the hardest to bear; in ten thousand ways God can reach the heart, and break and crush it, and make it ready for the entrance of truth - as the farmer breaks and pulverizes the soil by the plow and the harrow, so that it shall be prepared to receive the seed. Compare the notes at Isaiah 28:24-29. Among those things for which good men have most occasion for thankfulness are afflictions; and when we lie down on the bed of death, and look over life and the divine dealings with us through life, as the glories of heaven are about to open upon us, we shall feel that among the chiefest mercies of God are those dealings of his holy hand, trying at the time, which kept us from going astray, or which recalled us when we had wandered from him - and “that in our life, now closing, there has not been one trial too much.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:67. Before I was afflicted I went astray — Many have been humbled under affliction, and taught to know themselves and humble themselves before God, that probably without this could never have been saved; after this, they have been serious and faithful. Affliction sanctified is a great blessing; unsanctified, it is an additional curse.
