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

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

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

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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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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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Footnotes

  1. 4.25 Or child

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

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

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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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Psalm 2

God’s Promise to His Anointed

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

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17 “How happy is the one whom God reproves;
    therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.17 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath-hepher.(A) 26 For the Lord saw that the distress of Israel was very bitter; there was no one left, bond or free, and no one to help Israel.(B) 27 But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.(C)

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23 But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them; he turned toward them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and would not destroy them, nor has he banished them from his presence until now.(A)

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Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so they escaped from the hand of the Arameans, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.(A)

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