“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.
Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
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