I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.

He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.

The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

God corrects us by sending sickness and filling our bodies with pain.

Their bodies waste away to nothing; you can see all their bones;

Some were fools, suffering because of their sins and because of their evil;

they couldn't stand the sight of food and were close to death.

Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.

From head to foot there is not a healthy spot on your body. You are covered with bruises and sores and open wounds. Your wounds have not been cleaned or bandaged. No medicine has been put on them.

When I go out in the fields, I see the bodies of men killed in war; when I go into the towns, I see people starving to death. Prophets and priests carry on their work, but they don't know what they are doing."

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

"He sent fire from above, a fire that burned inside me. He set a trap for me and brought me to the ground. Then he abandoned me and left me in constant pain.

He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me.

The day of punishment is coming, and Israel will be ruined. People of Israel, this will surely happen!

Samaria must be punished for rebelling against me. Her people will die in war; babies will be dashed to the ground, and pregnant women will be ripped open."