12. I will destine you for the sword,and you all shall bow down to the slaughter;because when I called, you did not answer;when I spoke, you did not hearbut did evil before My eyesand chose that in which I did not delight.
13. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: My servants shall eat,but you shall be hungry;My servants shall drink,but you shall be thirsty;My servants shall rejoice,but you shall be ashamed;
14. My servants shall sing for joywith a glad heart,but you shall crywith a heavy heartand shall wail with grief of spirit.
15. You shall leave your namefor a curse to My chosen ones;for the Lord God shall slay you,but My servants shall be called by another name;
16. because he who is blessed in the earthshall bless himself in the God of truth;and he who swears in the earthshall swear by the God of truth;because the former troubles are forgottenand because they are hidden from My eyes.
17. For I createnew heavens and a new earth;the former things shall not be rememberedor come to mind.
18. But be glad and rejoice foreverin that which I create;for I create Jerusalem for rejoicingand her people for joy.
19. I will rejoice in Jerusalemand be glad in My people;and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,nor the voice of crying.
20. There shall no longer bean infant who lives only a few daysnor an old man who has not filled out his days.For the child shall diea hundred years old,but the sinner being a hundred years oldshall be accursed.
21. They shall build houses and inhabit them;and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.