Psalm 111^[a]

³⁹ “‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Go and serve your idols,^(A) every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name^(B) with your gifts and idols.^{(C) 40} For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel,^(D) declares the Sovereign Lord, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings^(E) and your choice gifts,^[a] along with all your holy sacrifices.^{(F) 41} I will accept you as fragrant incense^(G) when I bring you out from the nations and gather^(H) you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy^(I) through you in the sight of the nations.^{(J) 42} Then you will know that I am the Lord,^(K) when I bring you into the land of Israel,^(L) the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.^{(M) 43} There you will remember your conduct^(N) and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves^(O) for all the evil you have done.^{(P) 44} You will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name’s sake^(Q) and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices, you people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(R)’”