65:17 For look, I am ready to create
new heavens and a new earth! 1
The former ones 2 will not be remembered;
no one will think about them anymore. 3
1 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.
2 tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”
3 tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”