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15 It was I who trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they plot evil against me.(A)

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15 I trained(A) them and strengthened their arms,
    but they plot evil(B) against me.

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Why do you plot against the Lord?
    He will make an end;
    no adversary will rise up twice.(A)

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Whatever they plot(A) against the Lord
    he will bring[a] to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it

19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)

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19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.(A) So be earnest and repent.(B)

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And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—

“My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord
    or lose heart when you are punished by him,(A)

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And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart(A) when he rebukes you,

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and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.(A)

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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,(A) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient(B) to Christ.

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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A)

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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(A)

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25 it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:[a]

‘Why did the gentiles rage
    and the peoples imagine vain things?(A)

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  1. 4.25 Or child

25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:(A)

“‘Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?

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The heart is devious above all else;
    it is perverse—
    who can understand it?(A)

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The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

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11 My child, do not despise the Lord’s discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,(A)

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11 My son,(A) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,(B)
    and do not resent his rebuke,

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43 Many times he delivered them,
    but they were rebellious in their purposes
    and were brought low through their iniquity.(A)
44 Nevertheless, he regarded their distress
    when he heard their cry.(B)
45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
    and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(C)

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43 Many times he delivered them,(A)
    but they were bent on rebellion(B)
    and they wasted away in their sin.
44 Yet he took note of their distress
    when he heard their cry;(C)
45 for their sake he remembered his covenant(D)
    and out of his great love(E) he relented.(F)

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12 Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,(A)

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12 Blessed is the one you discipline,(A) Lord,
    the one you teach(B) from your law;

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How long will you assail a person,
    will you batter your victim, all of you,
    as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?(A)

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How long will you assault me?
    Would all of you throw me down—
    this leaning wall,(A) this tottering fence?

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Psalm 2

God’s Promise to His Anointed

Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?(A)

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Psalm 2

Why do the nations conspire[a]
    and the peoples plot(A) in vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:1 Hebrew; Septuagint rage