It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I may learn Your decrees.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.
So by this will Jacob’s sin be atoned and this the full price to remove his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like shattered chalk stones, so that the Asherah poles and incense rise no more.
But when we are judged, we are being disciplined by the Lord so that we might not be condemned along with the world.