¹⁵ Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, Yet they plot evil against me.

⁹ What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

⁵ throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

²¹ Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

²⁵ who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

¹¹ My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:

⁴³ Many times he delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry.

⁴⁵ He remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;

³ How long will you assault a man, Would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

¹ Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?

¹⁷ "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

²⁵ He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

²⁶ For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

²⁷ Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

²³ But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

⁵ (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.