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A New Universe

17 Take notice! I’m about to create new heavens
    and a new earth;
the former things won’t be remembered,
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad[a] and rejoice[b] forever
    in what I am creating,
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
    and its people as a delight.
19 I’ll rejoice over Jerusalem,
    and take delight in my people;
no longer will the sound of weeping be heard in it,
    nor the cry of distress.

20 “And[c] there will no longer be in it
    a young boy[d] who lives only a few days,
        or an old person who does not live out his days;
for one who dies at a hundred years will be thought a mere youth,
    and one who falls short of a hundred years will be considered accursed.
21 People[e] will build houses and live in them;
    They’ll plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They won’t build for others to inhabit;
    they won’t plant for others to eat—
for like the lifetime[f] of a tree,[g] so will the lifetime[h] of my people be,
    and my chosen ones will long enjoy[i] the work of their hands.
23 They won’t toil in vain
    nor bear children doomed to misfortune,
for they will be offspring blessed[j] by the Lord,
    they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call, I will answer,
    while they are still speaking, I’ll hear.

25 “The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox;
but as for the serpent—
    its food will be dust!
They won’t harm or destroy
    on my entire holy mountain,”

says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:18 Sing. 1QIsaa; pl. MT
  2. Isaiah 65:18 Sing. 1QIsaa; pl. 1QIsab MT
  3. Isaiah 65:20 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT lack And
  4. Isaiah 65:20 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read an infant; cf. 49:15
  5. Isaiah 65:21 Lit. They
  6. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. days
  7. Isaiah 65:22 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the tree
  8. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. days
  9. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. consume or wear out
  10. Isaiah 65:23 Sing. 1QIsaa LXX; pl. 1QIsab MT