Psalm 73:14

God's Ways Vindicated

¹³ Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
And washed my hands in innocence;
¹⁴ For I have been stricken all day long
And chastened every morning.
¹⁵ If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

All Day Long

Morning by Morning

Job 7:3-4

So am I allotted months of vanity,
And nights of trouble are appointed me.

Job 7:18

That You examine him every morning
And try him every moment?

Job 10:3

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:17

‘You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
Hardship after hardship is with me.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;

Jeremiah 15:18

Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream
With water that is unreliable?

Amos 3:2

“You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

Hebrews 12:5

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

1 Peter 1:6

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,