19. Correct. Rather, “discipline,” or “chastise.”
Backslidings. meshuboth, “apostasies,” “turnings back,” or “defections,” a word occurring most frequently in Jeremiah. Of the 12 certain occurrences in the 9 are in this book ( 2:19; 3:6, 8, 11, 12, 22; 5:6; 8:5; 14:7).
An evil thing. Defined as being twofold: (1) apostasy from God, and (2) indifference to God.