13. Your words have been hard against Me, says the Lord.Yet you say, “What have we spoken against You?”
14. You said, “It is vain to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked as mourners before the Lord of Hosts?
15. And now we call the proud blessed, for those who do wickedness are built up; they even test God and escape.”
16. Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord listened and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name.
17. They shall be Mine, says the Lord of Hosts, on the day when I make up My jewels. And I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
18. Then you will again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.