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Psalms 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

KJV

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.

ASV

טֽוֹב לִ֥/י כִֽי עֻנֵּ֑יתִי לְ֝מַ֗עַן אֶלְמַ֥ד חֻקֶּֽי/ךָ

Hebrew

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

YLT

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
verb · 83×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
ךָ
k
noun · 126×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לְמַ֣עַן
lm'n
preposition · 268×
נִי
ny
verb · 87×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:32 — But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
  • 2Cor 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • Eccl 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
  • Eccl 7:14 — In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
  • Gen 50:20 — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
  • Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
  • Heb 12:10 — For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
  • Isa 27:9 — By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves
  • Jas 1:12 — Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
  • Jas 4:9 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
  • Job 33:19 — He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
  • Job 36:9 — Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
  • Lam 3:27 — It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
  • Matt 20:34 — So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
  • Ps 94:12 — Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
  • Ps 94:12 — Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
  • Ps 119:12 — Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
  • Ps 119:45 — And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:67 — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
  • Ps 119:67 — Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.