Bible Verses About The Afflictions of the Wicked: Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion

But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.

And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.

In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.