Isaiah 65:17-19

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New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, ^(A)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, ^(B)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
¹⁹^(C)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(D)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.

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Isaiah 65:21-25

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²¹^(A)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²^(B)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(C)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^(D)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(E)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(F)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴^(G)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(H)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵^(I)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(J)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(K)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror

Matthew 13:1-9

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The Parable of the Sower

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house ^(A)and sat beside the sea. ²And great crowds gathered about him, ^(B)so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. ³And ^(C)he told them many things in parables, saying: ^(D)“A sower went out to sow. ⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ⁶but ^(E)when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, ^(F)they withered away. ⁷Other seeds fell among ^(G)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some ^(H)a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹^(I)He who has ears,^[a] let him hear.”