Isaiah 65:8-25

English Standard Version

⁸Thus says the Lord:
^(A)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    ^(B)and not destroy them all.
⁹^(C)I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
    and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
    and my servants shall dwell there.
¹⁰^(D)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
    and ^(E)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
    for my people ^(F)who have sought me.
¹¹But ^(G)you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget ^(H)my holy mountain,
who ^(I)set a table for Fortune
    and ^(J)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
¹²I will destine you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
^(K)because, when I called, you did not answer;
    when I spoke, you did not listen,
^(L)but you did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose what I did not delight in.”

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, ^(M)my servants shall eat,
    but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;
¹⁴behold, ^(N)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
¹⁵You shall leave your name to ^(O)my chosen ^(P)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants ^(Q)he will call by another name,
¹⁶so that he who ^(R)blesses himself in the land
    shall bless himself by ^(S)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by ^(T)the God of truth;
^(U)because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, ^(V)I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(W)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
¹⁹^(X)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(Y)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
²⁰No 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 ^(Z)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(AA)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
²¹^(AB)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²^(AC)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(AD)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^(AE)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(AF)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(AG)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴^(AH)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(AI)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵^(AJ)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(AK)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(AL)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.