12And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.
13Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?`
14Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?
15And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.`
16Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.
17And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing -- a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him.
18And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
