Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this `is' all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;