Isaiah 65:13–25

¹³So this is what the Lord God says:

“My servants will eat,

but you evil people will be hungry.

My servants will drink,

but you evil people will be thirsty.

My servants will be happy,

but you evil people will be shamed.

¹⁴My servants will shout for joy

because of the goodness of their hearts,

but you evil people will cry,

because you will be sad.

You will cry loudly, because your spirits will be broken.

¹⁵Your names will be like curses to my servants,

and the Lord God will put you to death.

But he will call his servants by another name.

¹⁶People in the land who ask for blessings

will ask for them from the faithful God.

And people in the land who make a promise

will promise in the name of the faithful God,

because the troubles of the past will be forgotten.

I will make those troubles go away.

A New Time Is Coming

¹⁷“Look, I will make new heavens and a new earth,

and people will not remember the past

or think about those things.

¹⁸My people will be happy forever

because of the things I will make.

I will make a Jerusalem that is full of joy,

and I will make her people a delight.

¹⁹Then I will rejoice over Jerusalem

and be delighted with my people.

There will never again be heard in that city

the sounds of crying and sadness.

²⁰There will never be a baby from that city

who lives only a few days.

And there will never be an older person

who doesn’t have a long life.

A person who lives a hundred years will be called young,

and a person who dies before he is a hundred will be thought of as a sinner.

²¹In that city those who build houses will live there.

Those who plant vineyards will get to eat their grapes.

²²No more will one person build a house and someone else live there.

One person will not plant a garden and someone else eat its fruit.

My people will live a long time,

as trees live long.

My chosen people will live there

and enjoy the things they make.

²³They will never again work for nothing.

They will never again give birth to children who die young.

All my people will be blessed by the Lord;

they and their children will be blessed.

²⁴I will provide for their needs before they ask,

and I will help them while they are still asking for help.

²⁵Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace.

Lions will eat hay like oxen,

and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone.

They will not hurt or destroy each other

on all my holy mountain,”

says the Lord.