For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” declares the Lord God.
for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)
When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
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