⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass,
    ^(A)and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
    I tell you of them.”

^19 (A)Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
^(B)I will make a way in the wilderness
    ^(C)and rivers in the desert.

¹⁷ “For behold, ^(A)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, ^(B)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
^19 (C)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(D)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 ^(E)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(F)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
^21 (G)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
^22 (H)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(I)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 (J)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(K)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(L)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
^24 (M)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(N)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
^25 (O)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(P)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(Q)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.