1  Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love, and whom I ^alove I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven, for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their deliverance in all things out of temptation, and I have loved you—

  5  Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her ^btransgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

  2  I, the Lord, have suffered the affliction to come upon them, wherewith they have been afflicted, in consequence of their ^btransgressions;

  9  Therefore, in consequence of the ^atransgressions of my people, it is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season for the redemption of Zion—

  97  Let not that which I have appointed be polluted by mine enemies, by the consent of those who ^acall themselves after my name;