13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“My servants will eat,(A)
    but you will go hungry;(B)
my servants will drink,(C)
    but you will go thirsty;(D)
my servants will rejoice,(E)
    but you will be put to shame.(F)
14 My servants will sing(G)
    out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(H)
    from anguish of heart
    and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
    for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(I)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
    but to his servants he will give another name.(J)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(K) in the land
    will do so by the one true God;(L)
whoever takes an oath in the land
    will swear(M) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(N) 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.(O)
The former things will not be remembered,(P)
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(Q) forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(R) to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(S) over Jerusalem
    and take delight(T) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(U)
    will be heard in it no more.

20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(V) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(W)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

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