13  yYour words have been stout against me, saith the Lord.

hYet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14  yzYe have said, aIt is vain to serve God:

And awhat profit is it that we have bkept †his ordinance,

And that we have walked †mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

15  cAnd now we dcall ethe proud happy;

cYea, ethey that work wickedness †are set up;

cYea, they that ftempt God are even delivered.

16  Then gthey that feared the Lord hspake often one to another:

And the Lord hearkened, and heard it,

And ia book of remembrance was written before him

For gthem that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

17  And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts,

kIn that day when lI make up my ||mjewels;

And nI will spare them, oas a man spareth his own son pthat serveth him.

18  Then shall ye return, and qdiscern between the righteous and the wicked,

qBetween him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.