Isaiah 65:13–25

¹³Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Behold, My slaves will ^aeat, but you will be ^bhungry.

Behold, My slaves will ^cdrink, but you will be ^dthirsty.

Behold, My slaves will ^ebe glad, but you will be ^fput to shame.

¹⁴“Behold, My slaves will ^ashout joyfully with a merry heart,

But you will ^bcry out with a pained heart,

And you will wail with a broken spirit.

¹⁵“You will leave your name for a ^1acurse to My chosen ones,

And Lord Yahweh will put you to death.

But ²My slaves will be called by ^banother name,

¹⁶Because he who ¹is blessed in the earth

Will ²be blessed by the ^aGod of truth,

And he who swears in the earth

Will ^bswear by the God of truth;

Because the former distresses are forgotten,

And because they are hidden from My sight!

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, I am creating a ^anew heavens and a new earth;

And the ^bformer things will not be remembered or come upon the heart.

¹⁸“But be ^ajoyful and rejoice forever in what I create;

For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing

And her people for joy.

¹⁹“I will also ^arejoice in Jerusalem and be joyful in My people;

And there will no longer be heard in her

The voice of ^bweeping and the voice of crying.

²⁰“No longer will there be ¹in it an infant who lives but a few days,

Or an old man who does ^anot fulfill his days;

For the youth will die at the age of one hundred,

And the ^2bone who does not reach the age of one hundred

Will be thought accursed.

²¹“They will ^abuild houses and inhabit them;

They will also ^bplant vineyards and eat their fruit.

²²“They will not build and ^aanother inhabit;

They will not plant and another eat;

For ^bas the ¹lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,

And My chosen ones will ^cwear out the work of their hands.

²³“They will ^anot labor in vain,

Or bear children for terror;

For they are the ^bseed of those blessed by Yahweh,

And their offspring with them.

²⁴“And it will be that before they call, I will ^aanswer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

²⁵“The ^awolf and the lamb will graze together, and the ^blion will eat straw like the ox; and ^cdust will be the serpent’s food. They will ^ddo no evil nor act corruptly in all My ^eholy mountain,” says Yahweh.