5 But they tell others, ‘Stay away, and don’t come near me.I am too holy for you.’These people are like smoke in my nose.Like a fire that burns all the time, they continue to make me angry.
6 “Look, it is written here before me.I will not be quiet; instead, I will repay you in full.I will punish you for what you have done.
7 I will punish you for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,”says the Lord.“They burned incense to gods on the mountainsand shamed me on those hills.So I will punish them as they should be punishedfor what they did.”
8 This is what the Lord says:“When there is juice left in the grapes,people do not destroy them,because they know there is good left in them.So I will do the same thing to my servants—I will not completely destroy them.
9 I will leave some of the children of Jacob,and some of the people of Judah will receive my mountain.I will choose the people who will live there;my servants will live there.
10 Then the Plain of Sharon will be a field for flocks,and the Valley of Achor will be a place for herds to rest.They will be for the people who want to follow me.
11 “But as for you who left the Lord,who forgot about my holy mountain,who worship the god Luck,who hold religious feasts for the god Fate,