¹⁷ For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth,
    and the former things shall not be remembered,
and they shall not come to mind.^[a]
18     But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create!
For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing,
    and her people as a source of joy.
¹⁹ And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem,
    and I will rejoice over my people,
and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it,
    or^[b] the sound of a cry for help.
²⁰ There will no longer be a nursing infant who lives only a few^[c] days,
    or^[d] an old man who does not fill his days,
for the boy will die a hundred years old,^[e]
    and the one who fails to reach^[f] a hundred years^[g] will be considered^[h] accursed.
²¹ And they shall build houses and inhabit them,
    and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat.
For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.
²³ They shall not labor for nothing,
    and they shall not give birth to horror,
for they shall be offspring blessed by^[i] Yahweh,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴ And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer;
    while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one,
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
        but^[j] dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall do no evil,
    and they shall not destroy on all my holy mountain,”^[k] says Yahweh.