Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came. “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
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