¹⁵ Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

⁹ What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁵ And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²⁵ Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

⁴³ Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.