11-12. “But you who abandon me, your God,who forget the holy mountains,Who hold dinners for Lady Luckand throw cocktail parties for Sir Fate,Well, you asked for it. Fate it will be:your destiny, Death.For when I invited you, you ignored me;when I spoke to you, you brushed me off.You did the very things I exposed as evil;you chose what I hate.”
13-16. Therefore, this is the Message from the Master, God:“My servants will eat,and you’ll go hungry;My servants will drink,and you’ll go thirsty;My servants will rejoice,and you’ll hang your heads.My servants will laugh from full hearts,and you’ll cry out heartbroken,yes, wail from crushed spirits.Your legacy to my chosenwill be your name reduced to a cussword.I, God, will put you to deathand give a new name to my servants.Then whoever prays a blessing in the landwill use my faithful name for the blessing,And whoever takes an oath in the landwill use my faithful name for the oath,Because the earlier troubles are gone and forgotten,banished far from my sight.
17-25. “Pay close attention now:I’m creating new heavens and a new earth.All the earlier troubles, chaos, and painare things of the past, to be forgotten.Look ahead with joy.Anticipate what I’m creating:I’ll create Jerusalem as sheer joy,create my people as pure delight.I’ll take joy in Jerusalem,take delight in my people:No more sounds of weeping in the city,no cries of anguish;No more babies dying in the cradle,or old people who don’t enjoy a full lifetime;One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal—anything less will seem like a cheat.They’ll build housesand move in.They’ll plant fieldsand eat what they grow.No more building a housethat some outsider takes over,No more planting fieldsthat some enemy confiscates,For my people will be as long-lived as trees,my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work.They won’t work and have nothing come of it,they won’t have children snatched out from under them.For they themselves are plantings blessed by God,with their children and grandchildren likewise God-blessed.Before they call out, I’ll answer.Before they’ve finished speaking, I’ll have heard.Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow,lion and ox eat straw from the same trough,but snakes—they’ll get a diet of dirt!Neither animal nor human will hurt or killanywhere on my Holy Mountain,” says God.