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15 You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use as a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but he will call his servants by another name,
16 so that anyone on earth who blesses himself
    will bless himself by the God of Amen,[a]
and anyone on the earth who swears
    will swear by the God of Amen!
For the past troubles will be forgotten.
Yes, they are certainly hidden from my eyes.

The Lord’s New Creation

17 Watch this! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered.
They will not come to mind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:16 Amen is the literal rendering.

15 You will leave your name
    for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(A)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
    but to his servants he will give another name.(B)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(C) in the land
    will do so by the one true God;(D)
whoever takes an oath in the land
    will swear(E) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(F) will be forgotten
    and hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

17 “See, I will create
    new heavens and a new earth.(G)
The former things will not be remembered,(H)
    nor will they come to mind.

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