Isaiah 65:17–25

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.