2. All day long I stood ready to acceptpeople who turned against me.But the way they continue to live is not good.They do anything they want to do.
3. Right in front of me they continueto do things that make me angry.They offer sacrifices to their false gods in their gardens.They burn incense on altars of brick.
4. They sit among the graves.They spend their nights waiting to get messages from the dead.They eat the meat of pigs.Their pots are full of soup made from meat that is wrong to eat.
5. But they tell others, ‘Stay away. Don’t come near me.I am too holy for you.’These people are like smoke in my nose.Like a fire that burns all the time, they continue to make me angry.
6. “Look, it is written here before me.I will not be quiet. Instead, I will repay you in full.I will punish you for what you have done.
7. I will punish you for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,”says the Lord.“They burned incense to false gods on the mountains.They shamed me on those hills.So I will punish them as they should be punishedfor what they did.”
8. This is what the Lord says:“When there is juice left in the grapes,people do not destroy them.They know there is good left in them.I will do the same thing to my servants.I will not completely destroy them.
9. I will leave some of the children of Jacob.Some of the people of Judah will receive my mountain.I will choose the people who will live there.My servants will live there.
10. Then the Plain of Sharon will be a field for sheep.The Valley of Achor will be a place for cattle to rest.They will be for the people who want to follow me.
11. “But you who left the Lord will be punished.You forgot about my holy mountain.You worship the false god Luck.You hold religious feasts for the false god Fate.
12. But I decide your fate, and I will punish you with my sword.You will all be killed.This is because I called you, but you refused to answer.I spoke to you, but you wouldn’t listen.You did the things I said were evil.You chose to do things that displease me.”
13. So the Lord God said these things:“My servants will eat.But you evil people will be hungry.My servants will drink.But you evil people will be thirsty.My servants will be happy.But you evil people will be shamed.
14. My servants will shout for joybecause of the goodness of their hearts.But you evil people will cry,because you will be sad.You will cry loudly because your spirits will be broken.
15. Your names will be like curses to my servants.And the Lord God will put you to death.But he will call his servants by another name.