A Book of Remembrance

13Your words have been hard against me, says Yahweh. But you say, “What have we spoken against you?”

14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. And what profit is it that we have kept his charge and that we have walked in mourning before Yahweh of hosts?’

15So now we call the arrogant blessed; evildoers are even built up; they even test God and escape.’

16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke with one another, and Yahweh paid attention and heard; and a book of remembrance was written before him for those who fear Yahweh and who esteem his name.

17And they will be mine, says Yahweh of Armies, on the day when I make them a treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

18Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.