FINAL JUDGMENT AND JOYOUS RESTORATION

66 This is what the Lord says:

Heavenk is my throne,l

and earth is my footstool.m

Where could you possibly build a house for me?

And where would my resting place be?n

2 My hand made all these things,

and so they all came into being.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

I will look favorably on this kind of person:

one who is humble,o submissiveD in spirit,p

and trembles at my word.

3 One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person;

one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck;

one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood;

one person offers incense, another praises an idol—

all these have chosen their ways

and delight in their abhorrent practices.q

4 So I will choose their punishment,

and I will bring on them what they dread

because I called and no one answered;

I spoke and they did not listen;

they did what was evil in my sight

and chose what I did not delight in.r