‘Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.’
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‘It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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‘I know, O Lᴏʀᴅ, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.’
—Psalm 119:67, 71, & 75
