10. Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired,but you do not say, ‘I give up.’You get renewed energy,so you don’t collapse.
11. Whom are you worried about?Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfullyand not remember meor think about me?Because I have been silent for so long,you are not afraid of me.
12. I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds,but they will not help you.
13. When you cry out for help, let your idols help you!The wind blows them all away,a breeze carries them away. But the one who looks to me for help will inherit the landand will have access to my holy mountain.”
14. He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way!Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
15. For this is what the high and exalted one says,the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place,but also with the discouraged and humiliated,in order to cheer up the humiliatedand to encourage the discouraged.
16. For I will not be hostile foreveror perpetually angry,for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me,the life-giving breath I created.
17. I was angry because of their sinful greed;I attacked them and angrily rejected them,yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.
18. I have seen their behavior,but I will heal them and give them rest,and I will once again console those who mourn.
19. I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate.Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,”says the Lord, “and I will heal them.
20. But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet;its waves toss up mud and sand.
21. There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.”