The Repentance of the Righteous

¹⁶ Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other. The Lord listened and took note,^[a] and a scroll of remembrance was written in his presence about those who fear the Lord and honor His name. ¹⁷ “They’ll be mine,” says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, “in the day when I prepare my treasured possession. I’ll spare them, just as a man spares his own son who serves him. ¹⁸ When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not.”