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18 Be glad, and rejoice forever in what I’m going to create,
    because I’m going to create Jerusalem to be a delight
        and its people to be a joy.
19 I will rejoice about Jerusalem and be glad about my people.
    Screaming and crying will no longer be heard in the city.
20 There will no longer be an infant who lives for only a few days
    or an old man who doesn’t live a long life.
    Whoever lives to be a hundred years old will be thought of as young.
    Whoever dies before he is a hundred years old will be cursed as a sinner.

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18 But be glad and rejoice(A) forever
    in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(B) to be a delight
    and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(C) over Jerusalem
    and take delight(D) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(E)
    will be heard in it no more.

20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(F) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(G)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches