Isaiah 57

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1 The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. Isaiah 57:1WEB
2 He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. Isaiah 57:2WEB
3 “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. Isaiah 57:3WEB
4 Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, Isaiah 57:4WEB
5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? Isaiah 57:5WEB
6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? Isaiah 57:6WEB
7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice. Isaiah 57:7WEB
8 You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed. Isaiah 57:8WEB
9 You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. Isaiah 57:9WEB
10 You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. Isaiah 57:10WEB
11 “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me? Isaiah 57:11WEB
12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you. Isaiah 57:12WEB
13 When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.” Isaiah 57:13WEB
14 He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.” Isaiah 57:14WEB
15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. Isaiah 57:15WEB
16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made. Isaiah 57:16WEB
17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. Isaiah 57:17WEB
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. Isaiah 57:18WEB
19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says YHWH; “and I will heal them.” Isaiah 57:19WEB
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud. Isaiah 57:20WEB
21 “There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 57:21WEB

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