Isaiah 65:17-25

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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.
²⁰No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for ^(E)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(F)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
²¹^(G)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²^(H)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(I)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^(J)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(K)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(L)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴^(M)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(N)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵^(O)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(P)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(Q)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

Luke 1:67-79

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Zechariah's Prophecy

⁶⁷And his father Zechariah ^(A)was filled with the Holy Spirit and ^(B)prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸^(C)“Blessed be the Lord ^(D)God of Israel,
    for he has ^(E)visited and ^(F)redeemed his people
⁶⁹and ^(G)has raised up ^(H)a horn of salvation for us
    ^(I)in the house of his servant David,
⁷⁰^(J)as ^(K)he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
⁷¹^(L)that we should be saved from our enemies
    and from the hand of all who hate us;
⁷²^(M)to show the mercy promised to our fathers
    and ^(N)to remember his holy ^(O)covenant,
⁷³^(P)the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
⁷⁴    that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him ^(Q)without fear,
⁷⁵    ^(R)in holiness and righteousness before him ^(S)all our days.
⁷⁶And you, child, will be called ^(T)the prophet of ^(U)the Most High;
    for ^(V)you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
⁷⁷to give knowledge of salvation to his people
    ^(W)in the forgiveness of their sins,
⁷⁸because of the ^(X)tender mercy of our God,
    whereby ^(Y)the sunrise shall ^(Z)visit us^[a] ^(AA)from on high
⁷⁹to ^(AB)give light to ^(AC)those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into ^(AD)the way of ^(AE)peace.”