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Isaiah 57 📜 📕 ↷
Blessed Death of the Righteous
1 THE just perisheth, and there is none that considereth in his heart, & men of mercy are gathered away, because there is none that understandeth; for at the face of malice, is the just gathered away.📜💬📚
2 Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his direction.📜💬📚
God Condemns Idolatry
3 But come you hither ye children of the witch, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.📜💬📚
4 Upon whom have you jested? Upon whom have you opened your mouth awide, and thrust out the tongue? Are not you wicked children, a lying seed?📜💬📚
5 Which take comfort in the gods under every thick green tree, immolating your little ones in the torrents, under the high rocks?📜💬📚
6 In the parts of the torrent is thy part, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libament to them, thou hast offered sacrifice, shall I not take indignation of these things?📜💬📚
7 Upon an high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to immolate hosts.📜💬📚
8 And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set thy memorial: because thou hast discovered thy self near me, and hast received an adulterer, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their couch with open hand.📜💬📚
9 And thou hast adorned thy self with royal ointment, and hast multiplied the gay paintings. Thou didst send thy legates far off, & wast humbled even to hell.📜💬📚
10 In the multitude of thy way thou hast laboured; thou saidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thine own hand, therefore thou hast not asked.📜💬📚
11 For whom, with careful reverence, hast thou feared, whereas thou hast lied, & hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart? Because I am holding my peace, and as it were not seeing, and thou hast forgotten me.📜💬📚
12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.📜💬📚
13 When thou shalt cry, let thy gathered together deliver thee, and the wind shall take them all away, a soft blast shall bear them away: But he that hath confidence in me, shall inherit the land, & shall possess my holy mount.📜💬📚
Healing for the Repentant
14 And I will say: Make a way, give passage, turn out of the path, take away stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.📜💬📚
15 Because thus saith the High & Eminent, that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is holy, dwelling in the high, and holy place, and with a contrite & humble spirit: that he may revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.📜💬📚
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be wrath unto the end: because the spirit shall proceed from my face, and breathings I will make.📜💬📚
17 For the iniquity of his avarice I was angry, and have strucken him: I have hid my face from thee, and have taken indignation: and he hath gone wandering in the way of his own heart.📜💬📚
18 I saw his ways, and have healed him, and reduced him, and have restored consolations unto him, and to them that mourn for him.📜💬📚
19 I have created the fruit of the lips peace, peace to him that is far off, & that is near, saith our Lord, and I have healed him.📜💬📚
20 But the impious are as it were the raging sea, which can not be quiet, and the waves thereof overflow unto conculcation and mire.📜💬📚
21 There is no peace to the impious, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
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