For you write down bitter things against me
and make me reap the sins of my youth.
The wise inherit honor,
but fools get only shame.
The simple inherit folly,
but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
I will gather all nations
and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will put them on trial
for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
and divided up my land.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.