Isaiah 43:19

43:19 “Look, I am about to do something new.

Now it begins to happen! ¹  Do you not recognize ²  it?

Yes, I will make a road in the desert

and paths ³  in the wilderness.

Isaiah 65:17

65:17 For look, I am ready to create

new heavens and a new earth! ⁴ 

The former ones ⁵  will not be remembered;

no one will think about them anymore. ⁶ 

[43:19]  ¹ tn Heb “sprouts up”; NASB “will spring forth.”

[43:19]  ² tn Or “know” (KJV, ASV); NASB “be aware of”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “perceive.”

[43:19]  ³ tn The Hebrew texts has “streams,” probably under the influence of v. 20. The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has נתיבות (“paths”).

[65:17]  ⁴ sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.

[65:17]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”

[65:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”