8* Thus says the Lord:

As when the juice is pressed from a cluster,

and someone says, “Do not destroy it,

for there is still good in it,”

So will I do for the sake of my servants:

I will not destroy them all.

9From Jacob I will bring forth offspring,

from Judah, those who are to possess my mountains;

My chosen ones shall possess the land,

my servants shall dwell there.

10Sharon shall become a pasture for the flocks,

the Valley of Achor a resting place for the cattle,

for my people who have sought me.c

11But you who forsake the Lord,

who forget my holy mountain,

Who spread a table for Fortune

and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,*

12You I will destine for the sword;

you shall all bow down for slaughter;

Because I called and you did not answer,

I spoke and you did not listen,

But did what is evil in my sight

and things I do not delight in, you chose,d

13therefore thus says the Lord God:

My servants shall eat,

but you shall go hungry;

My servants shall drink,

but you shall be thirsty;

My servants shall rejoice,

but you shall be put to shame;

14My servants shall shout

for joy of heart,

But you shall cry out for grief of heart,

and howl for anguish of spirit.

15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones

when the Lord God slays you,

and calls his servants by another name.

16Whoever invokes a blessing in the land

shall bless by the God of truth;*

Whoever takes an oath in the land

shall swear by the God of truth;

For the hardships of the past shall be forgotten

and hidden from my eyes.

17* See, I am creating new heavens

and a new earth;

The former things shall not be remembered

nor come to mind.e

18Instead, shout for joy and be glad forever

in what I am creating.

Indeed, I am creating Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight;

19I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and exult in my people.

No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,

or the sound of crying;

20No longer shall there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days,

nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime;

One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth,

and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.f

21They shall build houses and live in them,

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit;

22They shall not build and others live there;

they shall not plant and others eat.

As the years of a tree, so the years of my people;

and my chosen ones shall long enjoy

the work of their hands.

23They shall not toil in vain,

nor beget children for sudden destruction;

For they shall be a people blessed by the Lord

and their descendants with them.

24Before they call, I will answer;

while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25* The wolf and the lamb shall pasture together,

and the lion shall eat hay like the ox—

but the serpent’s food shall be dust.g

None shall harm or destroy

on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.