Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly se
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lo
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not o
So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD h
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman ba
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Ro
When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.