Isaiah 65:17–23

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, ^kI create new heavens

and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered

or come into mind.

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever

in that which I create;

for behold, ^lI create Jerusalem to be a joy,

and her people to be a gladness.

^19mI will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in my people;

ⁿno more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping

and the cry of distress.

²⁰No more shall there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days,

or an old man who does not fill out his days,

for ^othe young man shall die a hundred years old,

and ^pthe sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

^21qThey shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

^22qThey shall not build and another inhabit;

they shall not plant and another eat;

^rfor like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,

and my chosen shall long enjoy³ the work of their hands.

^23sThey shall not labor in vain

^tor bear children for calamity,⁴

for ^uthey shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,

and their descendants with them.