The Lord shall rise up as [against] a mountain of ungodly [men], and shall be in the valley of Gibeon; He shall perform His works with wrath, [even] a work of bitterness, and His wrath shall deal strangely, and His destruction shall be strange.

For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.

Say to them, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

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

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.