Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Jehovah: I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.

So Gad came to David and said to him, Thus says Jehovah: Choose for yourself,

Why have you despised the Word of Jehovah, to do evil in His eyes? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

However, because of this matter in which you have caused contempt, for Jehovah to be spurned by His enemies, the child also who is born to you shall die the death.

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt;

The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall be satisfied with its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they shall accept their guilt, because they had despised My judgments and because their soul had abhorred My statutes.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

For He bruises, but He binds up; He shatters, but His hands heal.

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son with whom he is pleased.

For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and whips every son whom He receives.

But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.