Isaiah 65:17

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 

Isaiah 66:22

66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

Revelation 21:5

21:5 And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then ⁴  he said to me, “Write it down, ⁵  because these words are reliable ⁶  and true.”

[65:17]  ¹ sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. 18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos.

[65:17]  ² tn Or perhaps, “the former things” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “The events of the past.”

[65:17]  ³ tn Heb “and they will not come up on the mind.”

[21:5]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[21:5]  ⁵ tn The words “it down” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[21:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “faithful.”