Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.