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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/57.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Israel’s Futile Idolatry</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The righteous man perishes,</span><br /><span class="indent">and no one lays it to heart;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">devout men are taken away,</span><br /><span class="indent">while no one understands.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="indent">he enters into peace;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they rest in their beds</span><br /><span class="indent">who walk in their uprightness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But you, draw near,</span><br /><span class="indent">sons of the sorceress,</span><br /><span class="indent">offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Whom are you mocking?</span><br /><span class="indent">Against whom do you open your mouth wide</span><br /><span class="indent">and stick out your tongue?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Are you not children of transgression,</span><br /><span class="indent">the offspring of deceit,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">you who burn with lust among the oaks,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or among the terebinths">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">under every green tree,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who slaughter your children in the valleys,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion;</span><br /><span class="indent">they, they, are your lot;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to them you have poured out a drink offering,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have brought a grain offering.</span><br /><span class="indent">Shall I relent for these things?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On a high and lofty mountain</span><br /><span class="indent">you have set your bed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and there you went up to offer sacrifice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behind the door and the doorpost</span><br /><span class="indent">you have set up your memorial;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have gone up to it,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have made it wide;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have loved their bed,</span><br /><span class="indent">you have looked on nakedness.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You journeyed to the king with oil</span><br /><span class="indent">and multiplied your perfumes;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you sent your envoys far off,</span><br /><span class="indent">and sent down even to Sheol.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You were wearied with the length of your way,</span><br /><span class="indent">but you did not say, “It is hopeless”;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you found new life for your strength,</span><br /><span class="indent">and so you were not faint.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew and so you were not sick">c</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Whom did you dread and fear,</span><br /><span class="indent">so that you lied,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and did not remember me,</span><br /><span class="indent">did not lay it to heart?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Have I not held my peace, even for a long time,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you do not fear me?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they will not profit you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you!</span><br /><span class="indent">The wind will carry them all off,</span><br /><span class="indent">a breath will take them away.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land</span><br /><span class="indent">and shall inherit my holy mountain.</span></p> <p class="heading">Comfort for the Contrite</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And it shall be said,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Build up, build up, prepare the way,</span><br /><span class="indent">remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,</span><br /><span class="indent">who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“I dwell in the high and holy place,</span><br /><span class="indent">and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to revive the spirit of the lowly,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I will not contend forever,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor will I always be angry;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the spirit would grow faint before me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the breath of life that I made.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,</span><br /><span class="indent">I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,</span><br /><span class="indent">but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="indent">creating the fruit of the lips.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">“and I will heal him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the wicked are like the tossing sea;</span><br /><span class="indent">for it cannot be quiet,</span><br /><span class="indent">and its waters toss up mire and dirt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/57-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">among the</span> terebinths</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">on</span> a monument</i> (see 56:5); Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">on</span> a hand</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">and so you were not</span> sick</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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