“In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

O Lord, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.

Judgment on Obscene Religion

“So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

O Lord, correct me, but with justice; Not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.’

Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says the Lord, “For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.”

Israel Did Not Accept Correction

“Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the Lord.

The Prophet’s Second Question

Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

The Just Shall Live by Faith

I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.

She has not obeyed His voice, She has not received correction; She has not trusted in the Lord, She has not drawn near to her God.