Judgments and Promises
(Romans 10:1–21)

1“I was sought by those who did not ask;

I was found by those who did not seek Me.†

I said, Behold me! Behold me!’

To a nation not calling on My Name.

2I have spread out My hands all the day

to a rebellious people,†

those walking a way not good,

after their thoughts;

3the people provoking Me to my face continually,

offering sacrifices in the gardens

and burning incense on the bricks,

4sitting among the graves

and spending nights in lookouts,

those eating the flesh of swine

and the broth of of abominations in their vessels;

5those saying, ‘Keep yourself away;

do not come near to me, for I am set apart from you’—

these are smoke in My nostrils,

a fire burning all the day!

6Behold, it is written before My face,

and I will not keep silent, but I will repay,

and I will pay it back into their bosom,

7your⁺ iniquities,

and the iniquities of your⁺ fathers together.”

YHWH has said.

“Because they have burned incense on the mountains,

and on the hills they have scorned Me,

so I will measure out their wages first

into their bosom.”

8Thus says YHWH:

“As when the new wine is found in the cluster,

and one says, ‘You should not destroy it, for blessing is’ in it,

so will I do for the sake of My servants,

so as not to destroy them all.

9And I will bring forth from Jacob a seed,

and from Judah one inheriting My mountains;

and My chosen ones will inherit it,†

and My servants will dwell there.

10And Sharon will become as a habitation for the flock,

and the Valley of Achor as a resting place for herds,

for my people who have sought Me.

11And you⁺ forsaking YHWH,

those forgetful of My holy mountain,

of those arranging a table for Gad,†

and those filling mixed wine for Meni†—

12and I will appoint you⁺ for the sword,

and you⁺ will all bow down to the slaughter,

because I called, and you⁺ did not answer;

I spoke, and you⁺ did not hear;

and you⁺ did evil in My eyes,

and you⁺ chose that in which I do not take delight.”

13Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH:

“Behold, My servants will eat,

and you⁺ will go hungry.

Behold, My servants will drink,

and you⁺ will go thirsty.

Behold, My servants will be glad,

and you⁺ will be put to shame.

14Behold, My servants will sing out from goodness of heart,

and you⁺ will cry out from pain of heart,

and from a breaking of spirit you⁺ will wail.

15And you⁺ will leave behind your⁺ name

as a curse for My chosen ones—

and the Lord YHWH will slay you!—

And to His servants He will call out another name,

16that one blessing himself in the land

will bless himself by the God of truth,

and the one swearing in the land

will swear by the God of truth;

for the former troubles will be forgotten,

for they will be hidden from My eyes.

A New Heaven and a New Earth
(Revelation 21:1–8)

17For behold, I will create

new heavens and a new earth;†

and the former things will not be remembered,

and they will not come up upon the heart.

18But rather be glad and rejoice forever and ever

in that which I am creating!

For behold, I am creating Jerusalem as rejoicing

and her people as joy.

19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and take delight in My people;

and will not be heard in her any longer

the voice of weeping and the voice of crying out.

20There will not be from there anymore an infant of days,

or an elder who does not fulfill his days.

For the youth will die a son of a hundred years, a son,

and the one falling short of a hundred years old

will be accursed.

21And they build houses and dwell,

and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22And they will not build, and another dwell there;

they will not plant, and another eat;

for like the days of a tree

are the days of My people,

and the work of their hands

my chosen ones will wear out.

23They will not toil in vain,

and they will not bring forth for disaster;

for they are a seed blessed of YHWH—

they and their offspring with them.

24And it will come to pass that before they call, then I will answer;

and while they are still speaking, then I will hear.

25The wolf and the lamb will pasture as one,

and the lion like the ox will eat straw—

and the serpent,† dust is its food!

They will not cause harm and they will not destroy

in all My holy” mountain,

says YHWH.