Isaiah Chapter 57
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 ![]() |
57:2 | He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness. |
57:3 | But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. |
57:4 | Against whom ![]() |
57:5 | Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
57:6 | Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a ![]() ![]() |
57:7 | Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
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 ![]() |
57:9 | And thou wentest to the ![]() ![]() |
57:10 | Thou ![]() |
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? |
57:12 | I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. |
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 ![]() |
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. |
57:15 | For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth ![]() ![]() ![]() |
57:16 | For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the ![]() |
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. |
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. |
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. |
57:20 | But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose ![]() |
57:21 | [There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |