Isaiah 65:17-25

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New creation and new Jerusalem

¹⁷Look! I’m creating a new heaven and a new earth:
    past events won’t be remembered;
    they won’t come to mind.
¹⁸Be glad and rejoice forever
    in what I’m creating,
    because I’m creating Jerusalem as a joy
    and her people as a source of gladness.
¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad about my people.
    No one will ever hear the sound of weeping or crying in it again.
²⁰No more will babies live only a few days,
    or the old fail to live out their days.
The one who dies at a hundred will be like a young person,
    and the one falling short of a hundred will seem cursed.
²¹They will build houses and live in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²They won’t build for others to live in,
    nor plant for others to eat.
Like the days of a tree will be the days of my people;
    my chosen will make full use of their handiwork.
²³They won’t labor in vain,
    nor bear children to a world of horrors,
    because they will be people blessed by the Lord,
    they along with their descendants.
²⁴Before they call, I will answer;
    while they are still speaking, I will hear.
²⁵Wolf and lamb will graze together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
    but the snake—its food will be dust.
They won’t hurt or destroy at any place on my holy mountain,
    says the Lord.

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Psalm 30:6

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⁶When I was comfortable, I said,
“I will never stumble.”

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Psalm 30:6 in all English translations

Psalm 30:11-12

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¹¹You changed my mourning into dancing.
    You took off my funeral clothes
        and dressed me up in joy
¹²    so that my whole being
    might sing praises to you and never stop.
Lord, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

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John 4:43-54

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Jesus arrives in Galilee

⁴³After two days Jesus left for Galilee. (⁴⁴Jesus himself had testified that prophets have no honor in their own country.) ⁴⁵When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem during the festival, for they also had been at the festival.

Jesus’ second miraculous sign in Galilee

⁴⁶He returned to Cana in Galilee where he had turned the water into wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus was coming from Judea to Galilee, he went out to meet him and asked Jesus if he would come and heal his son, for his son was about to die. ⁴⁸Jesus said to him, “Unless you see miraculous signs and wonders, you won’t believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official said to him, “Lord, come before my son dies.”

⁵⁰Jesus replied, “Go home. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and set out for his home.

⁵¹While he was on his way, his servants were already coming to meet him. They said, “Your son lives!” ⁵²So he asked them at what time his son had started to get better. And they said, “The fever left him yesterday at about one o’clock in the afternoon.” ⁵³Then the father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus. ⁵⁴This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did while going from Judea to Galilee.

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