It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.