^{15 Ref} And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

^{16 Ref} Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.

^{17 Ref} And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, `even' mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.