It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.
But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; 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, the Asherahs and sun-pillars shall not stand up.