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Isaiah 57
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1See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.
1The 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.
2His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.
2He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
3But draw you⌃ near hither, you⌃ lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.
3“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
4Wherein have you⌃ been rioting? and against whom have you⌃ opened your mouth, and against whom have you⌃ loosed your tongue? are you⌃ not children of perdition? a lawless seed?
4Whom 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,
5who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?
5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
6That is your portion, this is your lot: and to them have you poured forth drink-offerings, and to these have you offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?
6Among 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?
7On a lofty and high mountain, there is your bed, and there you carried up your meat-offerings:
7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
8and behind the posts of your door you did place your memorials. Did you think that if you should depart from me, you would gain? you have loved those that lay with you;
8You 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 a covenant for yourself with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
9and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell.
9You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
10You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated me.
10You 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.
11Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered, nor considered me, nor regarded me, yes, though when I see you I pass you by, yet you have not feared me.
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?
12And I will declare your righteousness, and your sins, which shall not profit you.
12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
13When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry [them] away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
13When 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.”
14And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take upthe stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.
14He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
15Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holyin the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:
15For 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.
16I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.
16For 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.
17On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and struck him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.
17I 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.
18I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him , and given him true comfort;
18I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
19peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and the Lord has said,I will heal them.
19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
20But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest .
20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
21There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.
21“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”