14 My servants will sing for joy,but you will cry in sorrow and despair.
15 Your name will be a curse word among my people,for the Sovereign lord will destroy youand will call his true servants by another name.
16 All who invoke a blessing or take an oathwill do so by the God of truth.For I will put aside my angerand forget the evil of earlier days.
17 “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,and no one will even think about the old ones anymore.
18 Be glad; rejoice forever in my creation!And look! I will create Jerusalem as a place of happiness.Her people will be a source of joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalemand delight in my people.And the sound of weeping and cryingwill be heard in it no more.
20 “No longer will babies die when only a few days old.No longer will adults die before they have lived a full life.No longer will people be considered old at one hundred!Only the cursed will die that young!