Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity. Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher. For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel. But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
(Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.
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