⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

⁴ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

¹⁶⁰ Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

⁷ I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹ If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.