13. I will comfort youas a mother comforts her child.You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
14. When you see these things, you will be happy,and you will grow like the grass.The Lord’s servants will see his power,but his enemies will see his anger.
15. Look, the Lord is coming with fireand his armies with clouds of dust.He will punish those people with his anger;he will punish them with flames of fire.
16. The Lord will judge the people with fire,and he will destroy many people with his sword;he will kill many people.
17. “These people make themselves holy and pure to go to worship their gods in their gardens. Following each other into their special gardens, they eat the meat of pigs and rats and other hateful things. But they will all be destroyed together,” says the Lord.
18. “I know they have evil thoughts and do evil things, so I am coming to punish them. I will gather all nations and all people, and they will come together and see my glory.
19. “I will put a mark on some of the people, and I will send some of these saved people to the nations: to Tarshish, Libya, Lud (the land of archers), Tubal, Greece, and all the faraway lands. These people have never heard about what I have done nor seen my glory. So the saved people will tell the nations about my glory.
20. And they will bring all your fellow Israelites from all nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem. Your fellow Israelites will come on horses, donkeys, and camels and in chariots and wagons. They will be like the grain offerings that the people bring in clean containers to the Temple,” says the Lord.
21. “And I will choose even some of these people to be priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
22. “I will make new heavens and the new earth, which will last forever,” says the Lord. “In the same way, your names and your children will always be with me.
23. All people will come to worship me every Sabbath and every New Moon,” says the Lord.
24. “They will go out and see the dead bodies of the people who sinned against me. The worms that eat them will never die, and the fires that burn them will never stop, and everyone will hate to see those bodies.”