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67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
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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. …
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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…
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