Isaiah 65:11–25

¹¹But you who abandon the Lord,

who forget My holy mountain,

who prepare a table for Fortune

and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny, ^v

¹²I will destine you for the sword,

and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,

because I called and you did not answer,

I spoke and you did not hear;

you did what was evil in My sight

and chose what I did not delight in. ^w

¹³Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

My servants will eat,

but you will be hungry;

My servants will drink,

but you will be thirsty;

My servants will rejoice,

but you will be put to shame.

¹⁴My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,

but you will cry out from an anguished heart,

and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

¹⁵You will leave your name behind

as a curse for My chosen ones, ^x

and the Lord God will kill you;

but He will give His servants another name. ^y

¹⁶Whoever is blessed in the land

will be blessed by the God of truth, ^z

and whoever swears in the land

will swear by the God of truth.

For the former troubles will be forgotten

and hidden from My sight.

A New Creation

¹⁷“For I will create a new heaven and a new earth; ^a

the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.

¹⁸Then be glad and rejoice forever

in what I am creating;

for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight.

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in My people.

The sound of weeping and crying

will no longer be heard in her. ^b

²⁰In her, a nursing infant will no longer live

only a few days, ^c

or an old man not live out his days.

Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,

and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed. ^d

²¹People will build houses and live in them;

they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. ^e

²²They will not build and others live in them;

they will not plant and others eat.

For My people’s lives will be

like the lifetime of a tree. ^f

My chosen ones will fully enjoy

the work of their hands.

²³They will not labor without success ^g

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by the Lord

along with their descendants. ^h

²⁴Even before they call, I will answer; ⁱ

while they are still speaking, I will hear.

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will feed together, ^j

and the lion will eat straw like the ox, ^k

but the serpent’s food will be dust! ^l

They will not do what is evil or destroy

on My entire holy mountain,” ^m

says the Lord.