The psalmist again expresses profound truth--"For if Thou givest not strength, who can endure chastisement?"
When my soul slumbered being afar from the Lord, I had all but slipped down to the pit,
When I was far from God, my soul had been well-nigh poured out unto death,
I had been nigh unto the gates of Sheol with the sinner,
When my soul departed from the Lord God of Israel--
Had not the Lord helped me with His everlasting mercy. He pricked me, as a horse is pricked, that I might…