Psalm 119:67 {118:67}
Good News Translation
Before you punished me, I used to go wrong, but now I obey your word.

New Revised Standard Version
Before I was humbled I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Contemporary English Version
Once you corrected me for not obeying you, but now I do obey.

New American Bible
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I hold to your promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.

before

Psalm 119:176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.

Psalm 73:5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

2 Samuel 10:19 And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

2 Samuel 11:2 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Chronicles 33:9-13 So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel. . . .

Proverbs 1:32 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

Jeremiah 22:21 I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not hear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my voice.

but now

Psalm 119:71,75 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications. . . .

Jeremiah 31:18,19 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. . . .

Hosea 2:6,7 Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. . . .

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hebrews 12:10,22 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. . . .

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
66Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments. 67Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.68Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Psalm 119:75
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

Jeremiah 31:18
Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 31:19
For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.

Lamentations 3:33
Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

Psalm 119:66
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