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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 57 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/57.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//isaiah/57-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Isaiah 57</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/56.htm" title="Isaiah 56">◄</a> Isaiah 57 <a href="../isaiah/58.htm" 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">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/isaiah/57.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Blessed Death of the Righteous<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The righteous perish, <p class="indent2"> and no one takes it to heart; <p class="indent1"> devout men are taken away, <p class="indent2"> while no one considers <p class="indent1"> that the righteous are taken away <p class="indent2"> from the presence of evil. <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; <p class="indent2"> they find rest, lying down in death. <A name="4"></a><p class="hdg">God Condemns Idolatry<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, <p class="indent2"> you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whom are you mocking? <p class="indent2"> At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? <p class="indent1"> Are you not children of transgression, <p class="indent2"> offspring of deceit, <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>who burn with lust among the oaks, <p class="indent2"> under every luxuriant tree, <p class="indent1"> who slaughter your children in the valleys, <p class="indent2"> under the clefts of the rocks? <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; <p class="indent2"> indeed, they are your lot. <p class="indent1"> Even to them you have poured out a drink offering <p class="indent2"> and offered a grain offering. <p class="indent2"> Should I relent because of these? <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, <p class="indent2"> and there you went up to offer sacrifices. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behind the door and doorpost <p class="indent2"> you have set up your memorial. <p class="indent1"> Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; <p class="indent2"> you climbed up and opened it wide. <p class="indent1"> And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; <p class="indent2"> you have gazed upon their nakedness. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You went to Molech<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> with oil <p class="indent2"> and multiplied your perfumes. <p class="indent1"> You have sent your envoys<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> a great distance; <p class="indent2"> you have descended even to Sheol itself. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are wearied by your many journeys, <p class="indent2"> but you did not say, “There is no hope!” <p class="indent1"> You found renewal of your strength; <p class="indent2"> therefore you did not grow weak. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Whom have you dreaded and feared, <p class="indent2"> so that you lied and failed <p class="indent2"> to remember Me or take this to heart? <p class="indent1"> Is it not because I have long been silent <p class="indent2"> that you do not fear Me? <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will expose your righteousness and your works, <p class="indent2"> and they will not profit you. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When you cry out, <p class="indent2"> let your companies of idols deliver you! <p class="indent1"> Yet the wind will carry off all of them, <p class="indent2"> a breath will take them away. <p class="indent1"> But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land <p class="indent2"> and possess My holy mountain.” <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Healing for the Repentant<p class="reg"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And it will be said, <p class="indent1stline">“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, <p class="indent2"> take every obstacle out of the way of My people.” <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, <p class="indent2"> who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: <p class="indent1stline">“I dwell in a high and holy place, <p class="indent2"> and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, <p class="indent1"> to restore the spirit of the lowly <p class="indent2"> and revive the heart of the contrite. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I will not accuse you forever, <p class="indent2"> nor will I always be angry; <p class="indent1"> for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—<p class="indent2"> the breath of life I have made. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I was enraged by his sinful greed, <p class="indent2"> so I struck him and hid My face in anger; <p class="indent1"> yet he kept turning back <p class="indent2"> to the desires of his heart. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have seen his ways, <p class="indent2"> but I will heal him; <p class="indent1"> I will guide him and restore comfort <p class="indent2"> to him and his mourners, <A name="20"></a><p class="indent2"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>bringing praise to their lips. <p class="indent1"> Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, <p class="indent2">“and I will heal them.” <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, <p class="indent2"> for it cannot be still, <p class="indent2"> and its waves churn up mire and muck. <p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“There is no peace,” says my God, <p class="indent2">“for the wicked.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>to the king</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>idols</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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