16-17. “Now, watch for what comes next: I’m going to assemble a bunch of fishermen.” God’s Decree! “They’ll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I’ll send out a party of hunters, and they’ll hunt them out in all the mountains, hills, and caves. I’m watching their every move. I haven’t lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.
18. “They won’t get by with a thing. They’ll pay double for everything they did wrong. They’ve made a complete mess of things, littering their lives with their obscene no-gods, leaving piles of stinking god-junk all over the place.”
19-20. God, my strength, my stronghold,my safe retreat when trouble descends:The godless nations will comefrom earth’s four corners, saying,“Our ancestors lived on lies,useless illusions, all smoke.”Can mortals manufacture gods?Their factories turn out no-gods!
21. “Watch closely now. I’m going to teach these wrongheaded people.Starting right now, I’m going to teach themWho I am and what I do,teach them the meaning of my name, God—‘I Am.’”