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Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion
But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear Yahweh our God.”
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
Correction » Correction despised
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:
My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,
or faint when you are reproved by Him,
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
the locust devoured
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.
and the power of war.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he paid no attention.
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.
and accept correction.
Then her dwelling place
would not be cut off
based on all that I had allocated to her.
However, they became more corrupt
in all their actions.
Prophets » Martyrs
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
the blood of the saints and the prophets,
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it!
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,