Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

我未受苦以先走迷了路，现在却遵守你的话。

我未受苦以先曾经迷失，现在却遵守你的话。

我未受苦以先曾经迷失，现在却遵守你的话。

从前我没有受苦的时候走迷了路，现在我要遵行你的话。

我受苦以先，犯了错误；现在我谨守你的话。

在我受磨炼之前，我是迷失的；而现在，我遵守你的言语。

我未受苦以先走迷了路，現在卻遵守你的話。

我未受苦以先曾經迷失，現在卻遵守你的話。

我未受苦以先曾經迷失，現在卻遵守你的話。

從前我沒有受苦的時候走迷了路，現在我要遵行你的話。

我受苦以先，犯了錯誤；現在我謹守你的話。

在未遭受苦難以前、我犯了錯誤；現在我遵守你的訓言。

在我受磨煉之前，我是迷失的；而現在，我遵守你的言語。

我未受苦之先、曾入歧路、今守爾言兮、

我未受苦、則迷我途、今守爾道兮、

我未受苦之先、誤行錯路、今我遵守主言、

昔處順境。沈溺邪淫。既遭顚沛。玉我於成。

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.

Before I went through suffering, I went down the wrong path. But now I obey your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

“ I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,‘ You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”“ Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say,‘ I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

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

Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,“ My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.They say,“ How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.If I had said,“ I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.David sent and inquired after the woman. One said,“ Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her( for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said,“ I am with child.”David sent to Joab,“ Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.David said to Uriah,“ Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.When they had told David, saying,“ Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah,“ Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”Uriah said to David,“ The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”David said to Uriah,“ Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.He wrote in the letter, saying,“ Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;and he commanded the messenger, saying,“ When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you,‘ Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say,‘ Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.The messenger said to David,“ The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”Then David said to the messenger,“ Tell Joab,‘ Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said,‘ I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.