^{15 Ref} Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

^{16 Ref} Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

^{17 Ref} They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

^{18 Ref} Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.