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.
16. People in the land who ask for blessingswill ask for them from the faithful God.People in the land who make a promisewill promise in the name of the faithful God.This is because the troubles of the past will be forgotten.I will make those troubles go away.
17. “Look, I will make new heavens and a new earth.And people will not remember the past.They will not think about those things.
18. My people will be happy foreverbecause of the things I will make.I will make a Jerusalem that is full of joy.And I will make her people a delight.
19. Then I will rejoice over Jerusalem.I will be delighted with my people.There will never again becrying and sadness in that city.
20. There will never be a baby from that citywho lives only a few days.And there will never be an older personwho doesn’t have a long life.A person who lives 100 years will be called young.And the person who dies before he is 100 will be thought of as a sinner.