It was good for me to suffer so I would learn your demands.
Before I suffered, I did wrong, but now I obey your word.
This is how Israel’s guilt will be forgiven; this is how its sins will be taken away: Israel will crush the rocks of the altar to dust, and no statues or altars will be left standing for the Asherah idols.
But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we will not be destroyed along with the world.