'Punish' in the Bible

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

"But I will punish the nation they serve,' said God, "and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.'

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.