Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.

Remember that the LORD your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.

LORD, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

Before you punished me, I used to go wrong, but now I obey your word.

My punishment was good for me, because it made me learn your commands.

But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

When I lie down to sleep, the hours drag; I toss all night and long for dawn.

Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.

At night my bones all ache; the pain that gnaws me never stops.

This made Asa so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.

In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king, he was crippled by a severe foot disease; but even then he did not turn to the LORD for help, but to doctors.

O LORD, don't punish me in your anger!

Because of your anger, I am in great pain; my whole body is diseased because of my sins.

Because I have been foolish, my sores stink and rot.

I am burning with fever and I am near death.

My ancestors destroyed the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and killed the people of Betheden who lived in Telassar, and none of their gods could save them.

Where are the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?"