¹⁵ I trained them and made them strong,
    yet now they plot evil against me.

⁹ Why are you scheming against the Lord?
    He will destroy you with one blow;
    he won’t need to strike twice!

“My child,^[b] don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and don’t give up when he corrects you.

‘Why were the nations so angry?
    Why did they waste their time with futile plans?

⁹ “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
    and desperately wicked.
    Who really knows how bad it is?

¹¹ My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline,
    and don’t be upset when he corrects you.

⁴³ Again and again he rescued them,
    but they chose to rebel against him,
    and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
⁴⁴ Even so, he pitied them in their distress
    and listened to their cries.
⁴⁵ He remembered his covenant with them
    and relented because of his unfailing love.