Isaiah 65:17
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "I am making a new earth and new heavens. The events of the past will be completely forgotten.

New Revised Standard Version
For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.

Contemporary English Version
I am creating new heavens and a new earth; everything of the past will be forgotten.

New American Bible
See, I am creating new heavens and a new earth; The former things shall not be remembered nor come to mind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

I create

Isaiah 51:16 I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

2 Peter 3:13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 21:1-5 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. . . .

the former

Jeremiah 3:16 And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.

into mind.

Context
A New Heavens and Earth
17For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.18But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

2 Corinthians 5:17
If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Hebrews 12:27
And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.

2 Peter 3:13
But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 21:1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

Isaiah 43:18
Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.

Isaiah 46:9
Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.

Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

Jeremiah 3:16
And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.

Isaiah 65:16
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