For they verily for a few days chastened {us} after their own pleasure; but he for {our} profit, that {we} might be partakers of his holiness. {after...: or, as seemed good, or, meet to them}

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Blessed {is} the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this {is} all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. {images: or, sun images}

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but} God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to save much people alive.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Blessed {is} the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

{It is} good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Blessed {is} the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding {and} eternal weight of glory;

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

So Jesus had compassion {on them}, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. {at liberty: Heb. at large}

Sorrow {is} better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. {Sorrow: or, Anger}

Blessed {art} thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and {your} joy to heaviness.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. {set: Heb. made}

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this {is} all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. {images: or, sun images}

Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for {their} good. {them...: Heb. the captivity}

His prayer also, and {how God} was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they {are} written among the sayings of the seers. {the seers: or, Hosai}

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.