Psalms 73:14
For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
BSB
ASV
For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.
KJV
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
For all the day long have I been plagued. He was smitten from the moment he woke to the time he went to bed. His griefs were not only continued, but renewed with every opening day. And chastened every morning. This was a vivid contrast to the lot of the ungodly. There were crowns for the reprobates and crosses for the elect. Strange that the saints should sigh and the sinners sing. Rest was given to the disturbers, and yet peace was denied to the peace makers. The downcast seer was in a muse and a maze.
This he thought was very hard, that, when those who blasphemed God were in prosperity, he that worshipped God was under such great affliction. He spoke feelingly when he spoke of his own troubles; there is no disputing against sense, except by faith.
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Hebrews 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
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My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
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But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
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Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
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1 Peter 1:6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
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Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish…
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.