Isaiah 65: 17-25

Mar 31, 2026

17 “For behold, I create new heavens

    and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered

    or come into mind.

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.

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.

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.

21 

They shall build houses and inhabit them;

    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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[a] the work of their hands.

23 

They shall not labor in vain

    or bear children for calamity,[b]

for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,

    and their descendants with them.

24 

Before they call I will answer;

    while they are yet speaking I will hear.

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,”

says the Lord.