Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity:

If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

And so return unto you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto you toward their land, which you gave unto their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty:

Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

That which I see not you teach me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.

Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself upon the thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us shame of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are trained by it.

And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations which the LORD carried away before them; and did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Moreover all the leaders of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much according to all the abominations of the nations; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their souls also abhorred me.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

He that hates me hates my Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.