14. When you see it, your heart will rejoiceand you will flourish like new grass.The power of the Lord will be made known to his servants,but he will condemn his enemies.
15. The Lord will come with fireand with his chariots like a thunderstorm.He will pay them back with his burning angerand punish them with flames of fire.
16. The Lord will judge with fire,and he will judge all people with his sword.Many people will be struck dead by the Lord.
17. People make themselves holyand prepare themselves for their garden rituals.They go into the gardenand devour pork, disgusting things, and mice.“They will come to an end at the same time,”declares the Lord.
18. Because of their actions and their thoughts,I am coming to gather the nations of every language.They will come and see my glory.
19. I will set up a sign among themand send some of their survivors to the nations:to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan,and to the distant coastlandswho have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.They will tell about my glory among the nations.
20. They will bring all your relativesfrom every nation like a grain offering to the Lord.“They will come on horses, in chariots, in wagons,on mules and camels to my holy mountain, Jerusalem,”declares the Lord.They will come like the people of Israel who bringtheir grain offerings in clean dishes to the Lord’s temple.
21. “I will make some of them priests and Levites,” declares the Lord.
22. “The new heaven and earth that I am about to makewill continue in my presence,” declares the Lord.“So your descendants and your namewill also continue in my presence.