6. Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap
7. both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,says the Lord; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills,I will measure into their lappayment for their former deeds.”
8. Thus says the Lord: “As the new wine is found in the cluster,and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,for there is a blessing in it,’so I will do for my servants’ sake, and not destroy them all.
9. I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,and from Judah possessors of my mountains;my chosen shall possess it,and my servants shall dwell there.
10. Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,for my people who have sought me.
11. But you who forsake the Lord,who forget my holy mountain,who set a table for Fortuneand fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
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.