If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?
Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.
For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.
And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.
So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.
And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.
These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.
So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.
For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.
And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.
Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;
But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.
And so I will give him punishment and let him go.
And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.
But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,
Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?
And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.
The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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