17  Therefore, as they were unfaithful they did not prosper nor progress in their journey, but were driven back, and incurred the displeasure of God upon them; and therefore they were smitten with famine and sore ^cafflictions, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty.

  3  And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him.

  14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine ^einiquity; because thy sins were increased.

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

  4  And that those who call themselves after my name might be chastened for a little season with a sore and grievous chastisement, because they did not ^bhearken altogether unto the precepts and commandments which I gave unto them.

  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—