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22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain. 23 From one month[a] to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people[b] will come to worship me,”[c] says the Lord. 24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die,[d] and the fire that consumes them will not die out.[e] All people will find the sight abhorrent.”[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:23 tn Heb “new moon.” The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
  2. Isaiah 66:23 tn Heb “all flesh” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NAB, NASB, NIV “all mankind”; NLT “All humanity.”
  3. Isaiah 66:23 tn Or “bow down before” (NASB).
  4. Isaiah 66:24 tn Heb “for their worm will not die.”
  5. Isaiah 66:24 tn Heb “and their fire will not be extinguished.”
  6. Isaiah 66:24 tn Heb “and they will be an abhorrence to all flesh.”sn This verse depicts a huge mass burial site where the seemingly endless pile of maggot-infested corpses are being burned.