| See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.1 – I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.2 – My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.3 |
| I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.4 – As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.5 – Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.6 – Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.7 |
