will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be reformed by me for these things, but will walk contrary unto me; then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I

will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts, in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. And they shall

fall one upon another, as it were

before a sword,

when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power

to stand before your enemies. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And they that are left

their iniquity in your

of you shall pine away in enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them."

2 Samuel vii. 14. "I will be his father, and he shall be my son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men."

Ezra ix. 13. "After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that our God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve."

Job v. 17, 18. "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for he maketh sore, and he bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole."

Job xxxiv. 31. 66 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more."

Psalm lxxxix. 30-32. "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes."

Psalm xciv. 12. "Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law.'

Psalm cxviii. 18. "The Lord hath chastened me sore."

Proverbs iii. 11, 12. "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction; for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."

Lamentations iii. 1-3. "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."

Ezekiel xx. 35-37. "And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant."

Hosea ii. 6. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths." Ver. 9. "Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness." Ver. 11, 12. “I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. And I will destroy her vines and her fig

trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me."

Hosea vii. 11, 12. Ephraim also is like a silly dove. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them."

Hosea x. 9, 10. "O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah. It is in my desire that I should chastise them."

Amos iii. 2. "You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."

Micah vi. 9.

"The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it."

Zephaniah i. 12. "I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil."

1 Cor. xi. 32. "When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

Hebrews xii. 5-11. "Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father