Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,
"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined[8] so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
The voice of the LORD cries to the city -- and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it![3]