12. I predestine you to die by the sword,all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block,because I called to you, and you did not respond,I spoke and you did not listen.You did evil before me;you chose to do what displeases me.”
13. So this is what the sovereign Lord says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
14. Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts!But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts;you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
15. Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones.The sovereign Lord will kill you,but he will give his servants another name.
16. Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earthwill do so in the name of the faithful God;whoever makes an oath in the earthwill do so in the name of the faithful God.For past problems will be forgotten;I will no longer think about them.
17. For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth!The former ones will not be remembered;no one will think about them anymore.
18. But be happy and rejoice forevermoreover what I am about to create!For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy,and her people to be a source of happiness.
19. Jerusalem will bring me joy,and my people will bring me happiness.The sound of weeping or cries of sorrowwill never be heard in her again.
20. Never again will one of her infants live just a few daysor an old man die before his time.Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred,anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.
21. They will build houses and live in them;they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22. No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it,or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit,for my people will live as long as trees,and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.
23. They will not work in vain,or give birth to children that will experience disaster.For the Lord will bless their childrenand their descendants.
24. Before they even call out, I will respond;while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25. A wolf and a lamb will graze together;a lion, like an ox, will eat straw,and a snake’s food will be dirt.They will no longer injure or destroyon my entire royal mountain,” says the Lord.