Isaiah 65:17–23

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.^*