ISA-57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to

heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that

the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

ISA-57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their

beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.

ISA-57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the

seed of the adulterer and the whore.

ISA-57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make

ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not

children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

ISA-57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,

slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the

rocks?

ISA-57:6 Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy

portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured

a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I

receive comfort in these?

ISA-57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed:

even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

ISA-57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up

thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another]

than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made

thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou

sawest [it].

ISA-57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst

increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off,

and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell.

ISA-57:10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet]

saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of

thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

ISA-57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou

hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy

heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me

not?

ISA-57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for

they shall not profit thee.

ISA-57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but

the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]:

but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and

shall inherit my holy mountain;

ISA-57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way,

 take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.

ISA-57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth

eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy

[place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit,

 to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of

the contrite ones.

ISA-57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be

always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the

souls [which] I have made.

ISA-57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and

smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in

the way of his heart.

ISA-57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead

him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

ISA-57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him

that is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and

I will heal him.

ISA-57:20 But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it

cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

ISA-57:21 [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 

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