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18 My people will be happy and rejoice forever and ever
    because of what I will make.
I will make a Jerusalem that is full of joy,
    and I will make her people happy.

19 “Then I will rejoice with Jerusalem.
    I will be happy with my people.
There will never again be crying
    and sadness in that city.
20 In that city there will never be a baby who lives only a few days,
    and every older person will live for a long, long time.
A person who lives 100 years will be called young.
    And whoever doesn’t live that long will be considered cursed.

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18 But be glad and rejoice(A) forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(B) to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(C) over Jerusalem
    and take delight(D) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(E)
    will be heard in it no more.

20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(F) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(G)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches