Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Psalms 119:67 in other translations
| BSB | Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word. |
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| WEB | Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. |
| ASV | Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word. |
| YLT | Before I am afflicted, I--I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept. |
| DARBY | Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word. |
| BBE | Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word. |
| Webster | Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. |
What does Psalms 119:67 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:65-67
65-67. The reliance on promises (Psa 119:49) is strengthened by experience of past dealings according with promises, and a prayer for guidance, encouraged by sanctified affliction.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:65-72
However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified against the snares of Satan, and furnished for the service of God. We are most apt to wander from God, when we are easy in the world. We should leave our concerns to the disposal of God, seeing we know not what is good for us…
Psalms 119:67 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:67
- Jeremiah 31:18-19
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
- Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
- Hosea 5:15-6:1
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
- Psalms 119:75
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Hebrews 12:5-11
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. …
- Revelation 3:10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
- Hosea 2:6-7
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
- Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
- Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- 2 Samuel 11:2-27
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath–sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. …
- Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
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Context
- Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
- Psalms 119:68
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
Psalms 119:67 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Antes que fuera yo humillado, descarriado andaba; mas ahora guardo tu palabra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Avant que je sois affligé, j’errais; mais maintenant je garde ta parole. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Bevor ich gedemütigt ward, irrte ich; jetzt aber bewahre ich dein Wort. |