⁵ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

¹⁴ For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

¹¹ God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.

³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

³¹ Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

³² That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.