These modes of transportation are said to be ceremonially clean in that they are sanctified for the express purpose of carrying God’s holy objects; see a similar concept in Zechariah 14:20–21a. 22–24. The book concludes with the fourth kî (absent in the NIV) describing a dramatic contrast between the righteous and the wicked. First, the righteous remnant (vv. 22–23) will endure before God, as do the new heavens and new earth: As [kaʾăšer, lit. ‘just as’] the new heavens and the new earth that I make