11. But as for you who abandon the Lordand forget about worshiping at my holy mountain,who prepare a feast for the god called ‘Fortune,’and fill up wine jugs for the god called ‘Destiny’ –
12. I predestine you to die by the sword,all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block,because I called to you, and you did not respond,I spoke and you did not listen.You did evil before me;you chose to do what displeases me.”
13. So this is what the sovereign Lord says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
14. Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts!But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts;you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
15. Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones.The sovereign Lord will kill you,but he will give his servants another name.
16. Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earthwill do so in the name of the faithful God;whoever makes an oath in the earthwill do so in the name of the faithful God.For past problems will be forgotten;I will no longer think about them.
17. For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth!The former ones will not be remembered;no one will think about them anymore.
18. But be happy and rejoice forevermoreover what I am about to create!For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy,and her people to be a source of happiness.