Ezekiel 19:5-9

The Prophet is adverting to the Babylonish captivity, as he had before to that of Egypt, and from both raiseth a subject of lamentation. Reader! it is a very solemn consideration to the people of God, that amidst their security in Christ the Lord will not allow the slightest inattention to his precepts. In the charter of grace the covenant thus runs, If his children (the seed of Christ) break My laws, and keep not My commandments, then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Psalms 89:30.