For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
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.
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
visit him every morning and test him every moment?
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
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