You will say,“ How I hated discipline! If only I had not ignored all the warnings!

说：“我怎么恨恶训诲，心中藐视责备，

说：“我为何恨恶管教，心里轻看责备呢？

说：“我为何恨恶管教，心里轻看责备呢？

说：“我为何厌恶教诲，心里藐视责备！

说：“我为什么恨恶管教，我的心为什么轻视责备，

说：“我怎么就恨恶了管教呢？我的心怎么就藐视了责备呢？

說：我怎麼恨惡訓誨，心中藐視責備，

說：「我為何恨惡管教，心裏輕看責備呢？

說：「我為何恨惡管教，心裏輕看責備呢？

說：「我為何厭惡教誨，心裡藐視責備！

說：“我為甚麼恨惡管教，我的心為甚麼輕視責備，

說：『唉！我怎樣恨惡管教，我的心怎樣藐視勸責，

說：「我怎麼就恨惡了管教呢？我的心怎麼就藐視了責備呢？

乃曰、我何恨惡訓誨、心輕斥責、

曰、我不受教、藐視箴規、

曰、哀哉、我厭棄訓誨、心中藐視督責、

You will say,“ How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

You will say,“ How I hated to take advice! How my heart refused to be corrected!

and you say,“ How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

and you will say,“ How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

And you say,“ How I hated instruction! And my heart disdainfully rejected rebuke!

And say:“ How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

and you will say,“ How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

And you will say,“ How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

and say,“ How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction.

“ How long, you simpletons, will you insist on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools hate knowledge?

You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.

Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Only a fool despises a parent’s discipline; whoever learns from correction is wise.

If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace; if you accept correction, you will be honored.

For you refuse my discipline and treat my words like trash.

“ Stand back!” they shouted.“ This fellow came to town as an outsider, and now he’s acting like our judge! We’ll treat you far worse than those other men!” And they lunged toward Lot to break down the door.

Don’t be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them,‘ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.’“ Where are your ancestors now? They and the prophets are long dead.But everything I said through my servants the prophets happened to your ancestors, just as I said. As a result, they repented and said,‘ We have received what we deserved from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He has done what he said he would do.’”

I was so foolish and ignorant— I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they ignored all his warnings.So the Lord sent the commanders of the Assyrian armies, and they took Manasseh prisoner. They put a ring through his nose, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.

Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said,“ This is what God says: Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands and keep yourselves from prospering? You have abandoned the Lord, and now he has abandoned you!”Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and King Joash ordered that they stone him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s Temple.That was how King Joash repaid Jehoiada for his loyalty— by killing his son. Zechariah’s last words as he died were,“ May the Lord see what they are doing and avenge my death!”

And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

The next day, when Moses went out to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting.“ Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the one who had started the fight.The man replied,“ Who appointed you to be our prince and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“ Everyone knows what I did.”

“ Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them,‘ Don’t do these horrible things that I hate so much.’

But the king interrupted him and said,“ Since when have I made you the king’s counselor? Be quiet now before I have you killed!” So the prophet stopped with this warning:“ I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have refused to accept my counsel.”

But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the Lord’s anger could no longer be restrained and nothing could be done.

For their command is a lamp and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline is the way to life.

“ Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven’s Armies was so angry with them.“ Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord.They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them.