18. Instead, shout for joy and be glad foreverin what I am creating.Indeed, I am creating Jerusalem to be a joyand its people to be a delight;
19. I will rejoice in Jerusalemand exult in my people.No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,or the sound of crying;
20. No longer shall there be in itan infant who lives but a few days,nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime;One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth,and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
21. They shall build houses and live in them,they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit;
22. They shall not build and others live there;they shall not plant and others eat.As the years of a tree, so the years of my people;and my chosen ones shall long enjoythe work of their hands.
23. They shall not toil in vain,nor beget children for sudden destruction;For they shall be a people blessed by the Lordand their descendants with them.
24. Before they call, I will answer;while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25. The wolf and the lamb shall pasture together,and the lion shall eat hay like the ox—but the serpent’s food shall be dust.None shall harm or destroyon all my holy mountain, says the Lord.