⁷ I have said, ‘If only you would fear me,
    if only you would take my instructions to heart.’
        Then their houses would not have been torn down.
I have chastened them,
    but they were eager to corrupt everything they were doing.”

⁸ “Just you wait!” declares the Lord.
    “The day will come when I stand up as a prosecutor,^[a]
for I am determined to assemble the nations
    and to gather the kingdoms,
in order to pour out my indignation upon them—
    all of my fierce anger.
All the earth will be consumed by the fire of my jealousy.
⁹ Indeed, then I will return my people to a pure language^[b]
    so that they all may call upon the name of the Lord,
        serving him with a united will.^[c]