“I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him…” 2 Samuel 7:14, 15a. “Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses” Psalm 107:6, 13.