Yehezkiel 16:59-60

16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant. 16:60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting ¹  covenant with you.

Imamat 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ²  Although ³  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ⁴ 

Mazmur 89:30-32

89:30 If his sons reject my law

and disobey my regulations,

89:31 if they break ⁵  my rules

and do not keep my commandments,

89:32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, ⁶ 

their sin by inflicting them with bruises. ⁷ 

Amos 3:2

3:2 “I have chosen ⁸  you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

¹ tn Or “eternal.”

² tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

⁴ tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).

⁵ tn Or “desecrate.”

⁶ tn Heb “I will punish with a club their rebellion.”

sn Despite the harsh image of beating…with a club, the language reflects a father-son relationship (see v. 30; 2 Sam 7:14). According to Proverbs, a שֵׁבֶט (shevet, “club”) was sometimes utilized to administer corporal punishment to rebellious children (see Prov 13:24; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:15).

⁷ tn Heb “with blows their sin.”

⁸ tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”