³¹ Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.

¹⁹ Listen, all the earth!
    I will bring disaster on my people.
It is the fruit of their own schemes,
    because they refuse to listen to me.
    They have rejected my word.

¹⁴ Backsliders get what they deserve;
    good people receive their reward.

⁸ Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster,
    and their reign of terror will come to an end.^[a]

⁸ My experience shows that those who plant trouble
    and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

¹⁰ Tell the godly that all will be well for them.
    They will enjoy the rich reward they have earned!
¹¹ But the wicked are doomed,
    for they will get exactly what they deserve.

¹⁹ Your wickedness will bring its own punishment.
    Your turning from me will shame you.
You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is
    to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him.
    I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!