Isaiah 65:17-19

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New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“See, I will create
    new heavens and a new earth.^(A)
The former things will not be remembered,^(B)
    nor will they come to mind.
¹⁸But be glad and rejoice^(C) forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem^(D) to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
¹⁹I will rejoice^(E) over Jerusalem
    and take delight^(F) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying^(G)
    will be heard in it no more.

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Isaiah 65:21-25

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²¹They will build houses^(A) and dwell in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.^(B)
²²No longer will they build houses and others live in them,^(C)
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,^(D)
    so will be the days^(E) of my people;
my chosen^(F) ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.
²³They will not labor in vain,^(G)
    nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;^(H)
for they will be a people blessed^(I) by the Lord,
    they and their descendants^(J) with them.
²⁴Before they call^(K) I will answer;^(L)
    while they are still speaking^(M) I will hear.
²⁵The wolf and the lamb^(N) will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,^(O)
    and dust will be the serpent’s^(P) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”^(Q)
says the Lord.

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Matthew 13:1-9

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The Parable of the Sower^(A)^(B)^(C)

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house^(D) and sat by the lake. ²Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat^(E) and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. ³Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. ⁸Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred,^(F) sixty or thirty times what was sown. ⁹Whoever has ears, let them hear.”^(G)