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2 Samuel 12:14

Good News Translation

But because you have shown such contempt for the Lord in doing this, your child will die.”

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Then Nathan went home. The Lord caused the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David to become very sick.

Then I said, “What you are doing is wrong! You ought to obey God and do what's right. Then you would not give our enemies, the Gentiles, any reason to ridicule us.

Don't let me bring shame on those who trust in you, Sovereign Lord Almighty! Don't let me bring disgrace to those who worship you, O God of Israel!

How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?

Lord, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

O Lord, our God, you answered your people; you showed them that you are a God who forgives, even though you punished them for their sins.

And now in Babylonia the same thing has happened: you are captives, and nothing was paid for you. Those who rule over you boast and brag and constantly show contempt for me.

“Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them.”

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them!

The scripture says, “Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God.”

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a child.”

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.




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