When a scorner is punished, the naive ¹  becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, ²  he gains knowledge.

“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she ¹  dies as a result of the blow, ²  he will surely be punished. ³ 

I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem.

Why should any living person ¹  complain when punished for his sins? ² 

They will be imprisoned in a pit, ¹  locked up in a prison, and after staying there for a long time, ²  they will be punished. ³ 

So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.

However, if the injured servant ¹  survives one or two days, the owner ²  will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss. ³ 

All of this is because ¹  the Lord who rules over all ²  has said: ‘Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. ³  This is the city which is to be punished. ⁴  Nothing but oppression happens in it. ⁵ 

A shrewd person ¹  sees danger ²  and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going ³  and suffer for it. ⁴ 

They ¹  will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, ² 

God was also offended by it, ¹  so he attacked Israel.

For I would have committed ¹  a shameful act, ²  an iniquity to be judged. ³ 

I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.”

The Lord severely ¹  punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

I punished ¹  them often in all the synagogues ²  and tried to force ³  them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged ⁴  at them, I went to persecute ⁵  them even in foreign cities.

“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint ¹  toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going ¹  and suffer for it.

Therefore ¹  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, ²  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

then this ¹  also would be iniquity to be judged, ²  for I would have been false ³  to God above.

If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!” ¹