“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.

in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?