For all day long I have been plagued and am punished every morning.
You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
visit them every morning, test them every moment?
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.
Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail.
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children— “My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when you are punished by him,
In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,