Isaiah 65:17–25

¹⁷For behold, I will create

new heavens and a new earth.^f

The former things will not be remembered,

nor will they come to mind.

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever

in what I create;

for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight.

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and take delight in My people.

The sounds of weeping and crying

will no longer be heard in her.

²⁰No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days,

or an old man fail to live out his years.

For the youth will die at a hundred years,

and he who fails to reach a hundred

will be considered accursed.

²¹They will build houses and dwell in them;

they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

²²No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit,

nor plant for others to eat.

For as is the lifetime of a tree,

so will be the days of My people,

and My chosen ones will fully enjoy

the work of their hands.

²³They will not labor in vain

or bear children doomed to disaster;

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD —

they and their descendants with them.

²⁴Even before they call, I will answer,

and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will feed together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox,

but the food of the serpent^g will be dust.

They will neither harm nor destroy

on all My holy mountain,”

says the LORD.