Psalm 94:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

Our Lord, you bless everyone that you instruct and teach by using your Law.

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Consider yourself fortunate if God All-Powerful chooses to correct you.

But when the Lord judges and punishes us, he does it to keep us from being condemned with the rest of the world.

I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.

When you corrected me, it did me good because it taught me to study your laws.

Once you corrected me for not obeying you, but now I do obey.

So keep in mind that the Lord has been correcting you, just as parents correct their children.

I am the Lord, and you are wise to respect my power to punish. So listen to my message for the city of Jerusalem: