New Heavens and a New Earth (ISA 65:17-25)

[65:17] “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

[65:18] But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.

[65:19] I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.

[65:20] No 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 the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

[65:21] They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

[65:22] They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

[65:23] They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.

[65:24] Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

[65:25] The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,”

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