Yahweh’s new creation

17 “Note this: Some day I will create a new heaven and a new earth.

They will be very wonderful, with the result that you will no longer think about all the troubles you had previously.

18 Be glad and always rejoice because of what I will do:

Jerusalem will be a place where people rejoice;

the people who live there will always be happy.

19 I will rejoice about Jerusalem,

and I will be delighted with my people.

People will no longer weep or cry because of being distressed.

20 No child will die when it is still an infant;

all people will live until they are very old.

People will consider that anyone who is 100 years old is still young;

they will consider that anyone who dies who is younger than that has been cursed.

21 My people will build houses and then live in them.

They will plant vineyards and then eat grapes from those vineyards.

22 As for the houses that they build, no one will take those houses away from them and live in them.

No one will take a vineyard away from its owner.

My chosen people will live a long time, like trees do,

and they will enjoy what they have accomplished—

the houses that they have built and the crops that they have planted.

23 They will not work hard in vain,

and their children will not die from some ◄calamity/terrible thing happening to them►.

I will certainly bless their children and their grandchildren.

24 Before they call to me to help them, I will answer;

I will answer their prayers while they are still praying for me to do something for them.

25 No one will be harmed or injured anywhere on Zion, my sacred hill:

Wolves and lambs will eat grass together peacefully;

lions will eat hay like oxen do, and they will not attack people.

Snakes will not hurt anyone; they will lie on the ground and eat only dirt.

That is surely what it will be like because I, Yahweh, have said it.”