10. Sharon will be a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie down, for My people who have sought Me.
11. But you who abandon the Lord,who forget My holy mountain,who prepare a table for Fortuneand fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
12. I will destine you for the sword,and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,because I called and you did not answer,I spoke and you did not hear;you did what was evil in My sightand chose what I did not delight in.
13. Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:My servants will eat,but you will be hungry;My servants will drink,but you will be thirsty;My servants will rejoice,but you will be put to shame.
14. My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,but you will cry out from an anguished heart,and you will lament out of a broken spirit.
15. You will leave your name behindas a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you;but He will give His servants another name.
16. Whoever is blessed in the landwill be blessed by the God of truth, and whoever swears in the landwill swear by the God of truth.For the former troubles will be forgottenand hidden from My sight.
17. “For I will create a new heaven and a new earth; the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
18. Then be glad and rejoice foreverin what I am creating;for I will create Jerusalem to be a joyand its people to be a delight.
19. I will rejoice in Jerusalemand be glad in My people.The sound of weeping and cryingwill no longer be heard in her.
20. In her, a nursing infant will no longer liveonly a few days, or an old man not live out his days.Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.