¹⁹ He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;

¹⁷ In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

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

¹⁸ For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.

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

³² But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

⁹ Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn your statutes.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

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

¹ > Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

² For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

¹¹ His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

⁴ When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

¹² In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn't seek Yahweh, but to the physicians.

¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

⁵ You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.