17 “For behold, I create new heavens

and a new earth;

and the former things shall not be remembered

or come into mind.

18 But be glad and rejoice for ever

in that which I create;

for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,

and her people a joy.

19 I 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.

20 No 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.

21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.