¹⁵ And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

⁹ What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

⁵ reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

²¹ because, having known God they did not glorify `Him' as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

²⁵ who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

⁹ Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?

¹¹ Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,

⁴³ Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

³ Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

¹ Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

²⁵ He hath brought back the border of Israel, from the entering in of Hamath unto the sea of the desert, according to the word of Jehovah, God of Israel, that He spake by the hand of His servant Jonah son of Amittai the prophet, who `is' of Gath-Hepher,

²⁶ for Jehovah hath seen the affliction of Israel -- very bitter, and there is none restrained, and there is none left, and there is no helper to Israel;

²⁷ and Jehovah hath not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and saveth them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

²³ and Jehovah doth favour them, and pity them, and turn unto them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and hath not been willing to destroy them, nor to cast them from His presence as yet.

⁵ and Jehovah giveth to Israel a saviour, and they go out from under the hand of Aram, and the sons of Israel dwell in their tents as heretofore;