1 I was sought concerning my Memra by those who did not ask after me; I was inquired of for instruction in my Torah by those who did not seek my fear; I will say, “Behold, I am inquired after continually, all the day, by a people that has not prayed in my name.” 2 I have sent my prophets every day to a rebellious people that walks in a way which was not good, after their own thoughts; 3 a people that provokes my Memra to anger continually to my face, that sacrifices in gardens to idols, and offers aromatic spices upon bricks; 4 who dwell in houses built of the dust of graves, and lodge with the dead bodies of the sons of men, who eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5 who say, “Stand by yourself, do not come near to me, for I am purer than you.” These provocations of theirs are like smoke before me; their recompense will be in hell, where the fire burns all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not give them prolongation in this life, but I will recompense to them the wages for their sins, and deliver their bodies to the second death.⁠a 7 Your sins and the sins of your fathers together are revealed before me, says the LORD, who have offered incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore I will repay their former works into their bosom. 8 Thus says the LORD, “As Noah was found righteous in the generation of the flood, and I said that I would not destroy him, in order that I might raise up the world through him; so I will do for the sake of my righteous servants, in order that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my elect will inherit it, and my righteous servants will dwell there. 10 And Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds of oxen to lie down, for my people who have sought my fear. 11 But you, O house of Israel, you have forsaken the worship of the LORD, you have forgotten the worship of my holy mountain, you who prepare tables for the idols and mix goblets for their gods. 12 Therefore I will deliver them to the sword, yes, all of you will be delivered to the slaughter; because I sent my prophets, and you did not repent; they prophesied, and you did not receive them, but did evil before me, and delighted yourselves in what I did not desire.” 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “My righteous servants will eat, but you, O wicked, will be hungry; my righteous servants will drink, but you, O wicked, will be thirsty; my righteous servants will rejoice, but you, O wicked, will be ashamed; 14 my righteous servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry out for sorrow of heart, and you will wail for vexation of spirit. 15 And you will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;⁠b for the Lord GOD will slay you with the second death, and call His righteous servants by another name,⁠c 16 so that he who blesses in the earth will bless by the God of the covenant, and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of the covenant; because the former troubles will be forgotten, and because they will be hidden from before me. 17 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former will not be remembered, nor will they come into mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice in the world of worlds that I create; for I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and my people will be glad in her; and the voice of weeping will no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of those who cry. 20 No more will there be from there an infant who lives only a few days, or an old man who does not complete his days; for even the child who sins will die a hundred years old, but the sinner who is a hundred years old will be thrust out. 21 And they will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They will not build, and others inhabit; they will not plant, and others eat; for as the days of the tree of life are the days of my people, and my elect will outlast the work of their hands. 23 They will not labor in vain, neither will they rear up children for death; for they will be the seed that the LORD has blessed, and the children of their children with them. 24 And before they pray before me, I will hear their prayer; and before they make supplication before me, I will grant their request. 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and as for the serpent, dust will be its food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the LORD.