For you write down bitter things against me
and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
The wise inherit honor,
but he holds fools up to public contempt.
The naive inherit folly,
but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.
Then I will gather all the nations,
and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
I will enter into judgment against them there
concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance,
whom they scattered among the nations.
They partitioned my land,
You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”