...unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge ; for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good, and doest good, teach me thy statutes." A more consoling and exhilarating subject than...

...readiest and surest way to ultimate concurrence in the blessed experience of the Psalmist — " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Others there are, again, who come under neither of the characters I have described ; whose situation,...

..." " I will give you that, which I hope, under your guidance, my future life may prove : ' Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word.' " " A twelvemonth hence I shall do it more justice, I hope, so you must allow me to substitute this...

...enabled to exclaim with the Psalmist, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted : for before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word." JA [The initials JA, attached to the above piece, will be found frequently repeated in the following...

..."Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law" (94:12). "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word" (119:67). "It is a good thing for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes" (119:71)....

...according unto thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. t of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land whi 68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me:...

...15:25; Job 33:1430; 36:8-15). "Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest, O Lord." Psalm 94:12 "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word . . . it is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes." Psalm 119:67,71...

...delivereth him out of them all." (The reference is to Psalm 34: 19.)41 Citing Psalm 119:67 ("Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word"), the anonymous pamphleteer goes on to explain that, if God seems to deal harshly with his children,...

...Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law. (Psa. 94. 12): Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. (Psa. 1 19. 67); For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee....

...preacher, and the first place I spoke at from home was Burton, near Barnsley. My text was: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word." I tried to show them that God had gracious ends in afflicting His children, and dwelt particularly...