O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,
`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;