What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.

Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

And He who is sitting upon the throne said, 'Lo, new I make all things; and He saith to me, 'Write, because these words are true and stedfast;'