Isaiah 65:13–25

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord God:

My servants shall eat,

but you shall be hungry;

my servants shall drink,

but you shall be thirsty;

my servants shall rejoice,

but you shall be put to shame;^*

¹⁴my servants shall sing with gladness of heart,

but you shall cry out in pain of heart

and shall wail in anguish of spirit.^*

¹⁵You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse,

and the Lord God will put you to death,

but to his servants he will give a different name.^*

¹⁶Then whoever invokes a blessing in the land

shall bless by the God of faithfulness,

and whoever takes an oath in the land

shall swear by the God of faithfulness,

because the former troubles are forgotten

and are hidden from my sight.^*

The Glorious New Creation

¹⁷For I am about to create new heavens

and a new earth;

the former things shall not be remembered

or come to mind.^*

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever

in what I am creating,

for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy

and its people as a delight.^*

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and delight in my people;

no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it

or the cry of distress.^*

²⁰No more shall there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days

or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,

for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,

and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.^*

²¹They shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.^*

²²They shall not build and another inhabit;

they shall not plant and another eat,

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

and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.^*

²³They shall not labor in vain

or bear children for calamity,^r

for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord—

and their descendants as well.^*

²⁴Before they call I will answer,

while they are yet speaking I will hear.^*

²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;

the lion shall eat straw like the ox,

but the serpent—its food shall be dust!

They shall not hurt or destroy

on all my holy mountain,

says the Lord.^*