Isaiah 65:17–23
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65:17For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth!39
The former ones40 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore.41
65:18But be happy and rejoice forevermore
over what I am about to create!
For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem42 to be a source of joy,43
and her people to be a source of happiness.44
65:19Jerusalem will bring me joy,
and my people will bring me happiness.45
The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow
will never be heard in her again.
65:20Never again will one of her infants live just a few days46
or an old man die before his time.47
Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred,48
anyone who fails to reach49 the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.
65:21They will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
65:22No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it,50
or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit,51
for my people will live as long as trees,52
and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.53
65:23They will not work in vain,
or give birth to children that will experience disaster.54
For the Lord will bless their children
and their descendants.55
Footnotes
- 39 This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18–19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
- 40 Or perhaps, “the former things” (so , , , ); “The events of the past.”
- 41 Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”
- 42 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
- 43 Heb “Jerusalem, joy.” The next verse suggests the meaning: The Lord will create Jerusalem to be a source of joy to himself.
- 44 Heb “her people, happiness.” See the preceding note.
- 45 Heb “and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be happy in my people.”
- 46 Heb “and there will not be from there again a nursing infant of days,” i.e., one that lives just a few days.
- 47 Heb “or an old [man] who does not fill out his days.”
- 48 Heb “for the child as a son of one hundred years will die.” The point seems to be that those who die at the age of a hundred will be considered children, for the average life span will be much longer than that. The category “child” will be redefined in light of the expanded life spans that will characterize this new era.
- 49 Heb “the one who misses.” חָטָא (khata’) is used here in its basic sense of “miss the mark.” See חטא. Another option is to translate, “and the sinner who reaches the age of a hundred will be cursed.”
- 50 Heb “they will not build, and another live [in it].”
- 51 Heb “they will not plant, and another eat.”
- 52 Heb “for like the days of the tree [will be] the days of my people.”
- 53 Heb “the work of their hands” (so , , , ); “their hard-won gains.”
- 54 Heb “and they will not give birth to horror.”
- 55 Heb “for offspring blessed by the Lord they [will be], and their descendants along with them.”
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