^{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.

^{21 Ref} And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

^{22 Ref} They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

^{23 Ref} Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

^{24 Ref} And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

^{25 Ref} The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.