Thematic Bible: Correction despised


Thematic Bible



And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain