67  Before I was ^bafflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

  4  For after much ^atribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand.

  15  Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy ^csins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

  3  Now the Lord hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have ^asinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

  5  Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her ^btransgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

  29  For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not succor my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.

  4  And that those who call themselves after my name might be chastened for a little season with a sore and grievous chastisement, because they did not ^bhearken altogether unto the precepts and commandments which I gave unto them.

  9  Therefore, in consequence of the ^atransgressions of my people, it is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season for the redemption of Zion—