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Isaiah 65:17
New Catholic Bible
Isaiah 65:17
New Catholic Bible
A Renewed World[a]
17 For behold, I am about to create
new heavens and a new earth.
The past will not be remembered
or ever again called to mind.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:17 The oracle looks beyond a restored Jerusalem to a future time when the prosperity and harmony that marked the beginnings of humankind are to be restored; this prosperity and harmony are expressed in images of paradisal life that were familiar to the ancients. Amid oracles that strike terror, here is a song of indestructible hope: a renewed world is coming in which sin will no longer exist (see also Isa 11:6-9). The Church awaits this new world for all of humanity; the dawn of this world breaks on Easter morning (2 Pet 3:13; Rev 21).