Isaiah 65:13-25 ▼

13 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: My servants shall eat, but you shall go hungry; My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

14 My servants shall shout for joy of heart, But you shall cry out for grief of heart, and howl for anguish of spirit.

15 You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones when the Lord GOD slays you, and calls his servants by another name.

16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land shall bless by the God of truth; Whoever takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; For the hardships of the past shall be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

17 See, I am creating new heavens and a new earth; The former things shall not be remembered nor come to mind.

18 Instead, shout for joy and be glad forever in what I am creating. Indeed, I am creating Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;

19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;

20 No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime; One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.

21 They shall build houses and live in them, they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit;

22 They shall not build and others live there; they shall not plant and others eat. As the years of a tree, so the years of my people; and my chosen ones shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not toil in vain, nor beget children for sudden destruction; For they shall be a people blessed by 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 pasture together, and the lion shall eat hay like the ox— but the serpent’s food shall be dust. None shall harm or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.