Psalms 119:67 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Psalms 119:67 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Hosea 5:15
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.
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Bible Chastisement Commandments Correction Duty Education Instruction

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 67)

David here tells us what he had experienced, 1. Of the temptations of a prosperous condition: “ Before I was afflicted, while I lived in peace and plenty, and knew no sorrow, I went astray from God and my duty.” Sin is going astray; and we are most apt to wander from God when we are easy and think ourselves at home in the world. Prosperity is the unhappy occasion of much iniquity; it makes people…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 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.