Isaiah 65:13–25

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! My servants shall eat but^z you, you shall be hungry.

Look! My servants shall drink but^a you, you shall be thirsty.

Look! My servants shall rejoice but^b you, you shall be ashamed.

¹⁴Look! My servants shall shout for joy^c of heart, but^d you, you shall cry out for pain^e and howl for sadness.^f

¹⁵And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse,

and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will give^g his servants another name.

¹⁶Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness,

and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness,

because the former troubles are forgotten,

and they are hidden from my eyes.

New Creation

¹⁷For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered,

and they shall not come to mind.^h

¹⁸But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create!

For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing,

and her people as a source of joy.

¹⁹And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem,

and I will rejoice over my people,

and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it,

orⁱ the sound of a cry for help.

²⁰There will no longer be a nursing infant who lives only a few^j days,

or^k an old man who does not fill his days,

for the boy will die a hundred years old,^l

and the one who fails to reach^m a hundred yearsⁿ will be considered^o accursed.

²¹And they shall build houses and inhabit them,

and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

²²They shall not build and another inhabit;

they shall not plant and another eat.

For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree,

and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.

²³They shall not labor for nothing,

and they shall not give birth to horror,

for they shall be offspring blessed by^p Yahweh,

and their descendants with them.

²⁴And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer;

while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.

²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one,

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox,

but^q dust shall be the serpent’s food.

They shall do no evil,

and they shall not destroy on all my holy mountain,”^r says Yahweh.