^{17 Ref} For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.

^{18 Ref} But joy ye, and rejoice for ever, that I `am' Creator, For, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy.

^{19 Ref} And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, And have joyed in My people, And not heard in her any more Is the voice of weeping, and the voice of crying.

^{20 Ref} There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.