Isaiah 57 NKJV

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title="Isaiah 58">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/57.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Israel’s Futile Idolatry</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-57-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The righteous perishes,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1">And no man takes <i>it</i> to heart;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1">Merciful men <i>are</i> taken away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1">While no one considers</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1">That the righteous is taken away from <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>evil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He shall enter into peace;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-2">They shall rest in their beds,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-2"><i>Each one</i> walking <i>in</i> his uprightness.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“But come here,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-3">You sons of the sorceress,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-3">You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whom do you ridicule?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4">Against whom do you make a wide mouth</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4"><i>And</i> stick out the tongue?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4"><i>Are</i> you not children of transgression,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4">Offspring of falsehood,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-5">Slaying the children in the valleys,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-5">Under the clefts of the rocks?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Among the smooth <i>stones</i> of the stream</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6"><i>Is</i> your portion;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6">They, they, <i>are</i> your lot!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6">Even to them you have poured a drink offering,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6">You have offered a grain offering.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6">Should I receive comfort in these?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“On a lofty and high mountain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7">You have set your bed;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7">Even there you went up</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7">To offer sacrifice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Also behind the doors and their posts</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">You have set up your remembrance;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">For you have uncovered yourself <i>to those other</i> than Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">And have gone up to them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">You have enlarged your bed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>made <i>a covenant</i> with them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">You have loved their bed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8">Where you saw <i>their</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>nudity.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You went to the king with ointment,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9">And increased your perfumes;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9">You sent your messengers far off,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9">And <i>even</i> descended to Sheol.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are wearied in the length of your way;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10"><i>Yet</i> you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10">You have found the life of your hand;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10">Therefore you were not grieved.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11">That you have lied</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11">And not remembered Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11">Nor taken <i>it</i> to your heart?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11">Is it not because I have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>held My peace from of old</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11">That you do not fear Me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will declare your righteousness</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-12">And your works,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-12">For they will not profit you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When you cry out,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13">Let your collection <i>of idols</i> deliver you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13">But the wind will carry them all away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13">A breath will take <i>them.</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13">But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13">And shall inherit My holy mountain.”</span></p></div> <h3> Healing for the Backslider</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-57-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And one shall say,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14">“Heap it up! Heap it up!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14">Prepare the way,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14">Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For thus says the High and Lofty One</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15">Who inhabits eternity, whose name <i>is</i> Holy:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15">“I dwell in the high and holy <i>place,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15">With him <i>who</i> has a contrite and humble spirit,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15">To revive the spirit of the humble,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15">And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I will not contend forever,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16">Nor will I always be angry;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16">For the spirit would fail before Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16">And the souls <i>which</i> I have made.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the iniquity of his covetousness</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17">I was angry and struck him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17">I hid and was angry,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17">And he went on <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>backsliding in the way of his heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have seen his ways, and will heal him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18">I will also lead him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18">And restore comforts to him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18">And to his mourners.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I create the fruit of the lips:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19">Peace, peace to <i>him who is</i> far off and to <i>him who is</i> near,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19">“And I will heal him.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the wicked <i>are</i> like the troubled sea,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-20">When it cannot rest,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-20">Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“<i>There</i> <i>is</i> no peace,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-21">Says my God, “for the wicked.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18767a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 57:1">Isaiah 57:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>the face of evil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18774b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 57:8">Isaiah 57:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>cut</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18774c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 57:8">Isaiah 57:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>hand,</i> a euphemism</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18777d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 57:11">Isaiah 57:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>remained silent</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18783e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 57:17">Isaiah 57:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>turning back</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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