Daily Bread

¹⁷ “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,^(A) following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs,^(B) rats^(C) and other unclean things—they will meet their end^(D) together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.

¹⁸ “And I, because of what they have planned and done,^(E) am about to come^[a] and gather the people of all nations^(F) and languages, and they will come and see my glory.^(G)

¹⁹ “I will set a sign^(H) among them, and I will send some of those who survive^(I) to the nations—to Tarshish,^(J) to the Libyans^[b] and Lydians^(K) (famous as archers), to Tubal^(L) and Greece,^(M) and to the distant islands^(N) that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.^(O) They will proclaim my glory among the nations. ²⁰ And they will bring^(P) all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain^(Q) in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”^(R) says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.^{(S) 21} And I will select some of them also to be priests^(T) and Levites,” says the Lord.

²² “As the new heavens and the new earth^(U) that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.^{(V) 23} From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath^(W) to another, all mankind will come and bow down^(X) before me,” says the Lord. ²⁴ “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies^(Y) of those who rebelled^(Z) against me; the worms^(AA) that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched,^(AB) and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”