12. I will destine you to the sword,and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer;when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyesand chose what I did not delight in.”
13. Therefore thus says the Lord God:“Behold, my servants shall eat,but you shall be hungry;behold, my servants shall drink,but you shall be thirsty;behold, my servants shall rejoice,but you shall be put to shame;
14. behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,but you shall cry out for pain of heartand shall wail for breaking of spirit.
15. You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse,and the Lord God will put you to death,but his servants he will call by another name.
16. So that he who blesses himself in the landshall bless himself by the God of truth,and he who takes an oath in the landshall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgottenand are hidden from my eyes.
17. “For behold, I create new heavensand a new earth,and the former things shall not be rememberedor come into mind.
18. But be glad and rejoice foreverin that which I create;for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,and her people to be a gladness.
19. I will rejoice in Jerusalemand be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weepingand the cry of distress.
20. No more shall there be in itan infant who lives but a few days,or an old man who does not fill out his days,for the young man shall die a hundred years old,and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.