14. My servants will shout for joybecause of the goodness of their hearts.But you evil people will cry,because you will be sad.You will cry loudly because your spirits will be broken.
15. Your names will be like curses to my servants.And the Lord God will put you to death.But he will call his servants by another name.
16. People in the land who ask for blessingswill ask for them from the faithful God.People in the land who make a promisewill promise in the name of the faithful God.This is because the troubles of the past will be forgotten.I will make those troubles go away.
17. “Look, I will make new heavens and a new earth.And people will not remember the past.They will not think about those things.
18. My people will be happy foreverbecause of the things I will make.I will make a Jerusalem that is full of joy.And I will make her people a delight.
19. Then I will rejoice over Jerusalem.I will be delighted with my people.There will never again becrying and sadness in that city.
20. There will never be a baby from that citywho lives only a few days.And there will never be an older personwho doesn’t have a long life.A person who lives 100 years will be called young.And the person who dies before he is 100 will be thought of as a sinner.
21. In that city the person who builds a house will live there.The person who plants vineyards will get to eat grapes.
22. No more will one person build a house and someone else live there.One person will not plant a garden and someone else eat its fruit.My people will live a long timeas trees live long.My chosen people will live thereand enjoy the things they make.
23. People will never again work for nothing.They will never again give birth to children who die young.All my people will be blessed by the Lord.My people and their children will be blessed.
24. I will provide for their needs before they ask.I will help them while they are still asking for help.
25. Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace.Lions will eat hay like oxen.A snake on the ground will not hurt anyone.They will not hurt or destroy each otheron all my holy mountain,”says the Lord.