Isa 65:17 | NETfull | STEP | For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.

Isaiah 65:17

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