It was good for me that I was afflicted, to learn Your statutes.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.
By this, then, the iniquity of Jacob will be covered, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces; Asherahs and sun pillars shall not rise.
But being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we not be condemned with the world.