Bible Verses About Chastisement: From God

Today it is you I am addressing -not your children, who haven't known or experienced the discipline of ADONAI your God, his greatness, his strong hand, his outstretched arm,

his signs and his actions which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to his entire country.

They didn't experience what he did to Egypt's army, horses and chariots -how ADONAI overwhelmed them with the water of the Sea of Suf as they were pursuing you, so that they remain destroyed to this day.

They didn't experience what he kept doing for you in the desert until you arrived at this place;

or what he did to Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av the descendant of Re'uven -how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, tents and every living thing in their company, there in front of all Isra'el.

But you have seen with your own eyes all these great deeds of ADONAI.

Therefore, you are to keep every mitzvah I am giving you today; so that you will be strong enough to go in and take possession of the land you are crossing over to conquer;

and so that you will live long in the land ADONAI swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

I will be a father for him, and he will be a son for me. If he does something wrong, I will punish him with a rod and blows, just as everyone gets punished;

nevertheless, my grace will not leave him, as I took it away from Sha'ul, whom I removed from before you.

"If your people Isra'el sin against you and in consequence are defeated by an enemy; then if they turn back to you, acknowledge your name, and pray and make their plea to you in this house,

hear from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Isra'el, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.

"When they sin against you, and in consequence the sky is shut, so that there is no rain; then if they pray toward this place, acknowledge your name and turn from their sin when you have brought them low;

hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Isra'el - since you keep teaching them the good way by which they should live -and send down rain on your land, which you have given your people as their inheritance.

"If there is famine in the land, or blight, windstorm, mildew, locusts or shearer-worms; or if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities - no matter what kind of plague or sickness it is;

then, regardless of what prayer or plea anyone among all your people Isra'el makes -for each individual will know his own plague and his own pain -and the person spreads out his hands toward this house;

then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive; also, since you know what is in each one's heart, give each person what his conduct deserves (because you, and only you, know human hearts),

so that they will fear you and therefore live according to your ways throughout the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

If I shut up the sky, so that there is no rain; or if I order locusts to devour the land; or if I send an epidemic of sickness among my people;

then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.

How happy the man whom you correct, Yah, whom you teach from your Torah,

giving him respite from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked!

Many times [God] rescued them, but they kept making plans to rebel. Thus they were brought low by their own wrongdoing.

Still he took pity on their distress whenever he heard their cry.

There were foolish people who suffered affliction because of their crimes and sins;