Holy Scripture

Isaiah 65:18

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 17, 18.) Because the former troubles have been forgotten and hidden from my eyes. For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

18But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.

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In context

16which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, and it shall not come into their mind.

17For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

— Isaiah 65:18 —

19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.

20Neither shall there be there anymore a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:

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