Yesaya 65:16-17

65:16 Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth ¹ 

will do so in the name of the faithful God; ² 

whoever makes an oath in the earth

will do so in the name of the faithful God. ³ 

For past problems will be forgotten;

I will no longer think about them. ⁴ 

65:17 For look, I am ready to create

new heavens and a new earth! ⁵ 

The former ones ⁶  will not be remembered;

no one will think about them anymore. ⁷ 

[65:16]  ¹ tn Or “in the land” (NIV, NCV, NRSV). The same phrase occurs again later in this verse, with the same options.

[65:16]  ² tn Heb “will pronounce a blessing by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ³ tn Heb “will take an oath by the God of truth.”

[65:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the former distresses will be forgotten, and they will be hidden from my eyes.”

[65:17]  ⁵ sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.

[65:17]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”

[65:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”