^{17 Ref} For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

^{18 Ref} But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

^{19 Ref} And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

^{20 Ref} No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.