Isaiah 65:13–25

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:

“Behold, my servants shall eat,

but you shall be hungry;

behold, my servants shall drink,

but you shall be thirsty;

behold, my servants shall rejoice,

but you shall be put to shame;

¹⁴behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,

but you shall cry out for pain of heart,

and shall wail for anguish of spirit.

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

and the Lord GOD will slay you;

but his servants he will call by a different name.

¹⁶So that he who blesses himself in the land

shall bless himself by the God of truth,

and he who takes an oath in the land

shall swear by the God of truth;

because the former troubles are forgotten

and are hid from my eyes.

¹⁷“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;

and the former things shall not be remembered

or come into mind.

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create;

for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,

and her people a joy.

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem,

and be glad in my people;

no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping

and the cry of distress.

²⁰No more shall there be in it

an infant that lives but a few days,

or an old man who does not fill out his days,

for the child shall die a hundred years old,

and the sinner a hundred years old shall be 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;

for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,

and their children with them.

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;

and dust shall be the serpent’s food.

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,

says the Lord.”