Isaiah 65:13-25

English Standard Version

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, ^(A)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, ^(B)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
¹⁵You shall leave your name to ^(C)my chosen ^(D)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants ^(E)he will call by another name,
¹⁶so that he who ^(F)blesses himself in the land
    shall bless himself by ^(G)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by ^(H)the God of truth;
^(I)because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, ^(J)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 forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(K)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
¹⁹^(L)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(M)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 who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for ^(N)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(O)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
²¹^(P)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²^(Q)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(R)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy^[a] the work of their hands.
²³^(S)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(T)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(U)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴^(V)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(W)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵^(X)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(Y)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(Z)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.