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Isaiah 57 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>On a lofty and high mountain, there is thy bed, and thither thou carriedst up thy meat-offerings:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and behind the posts of thy door thou didst place thy memorials. Didst thou think that if thou shouldest depart from me, thou wouldest gain? thou hast loved those that lay with thee;<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou hast wearied thyself with thy many ways; yet thou saidst not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for thou has done these things; therefore thou has not supplicated me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Through dread of whom hast thou feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered, nor considered me, nor regarded me, yea, though when I see thee I pass they by, yet thou hast not feared me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When thou criest out, let them deliver thee in thine affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry <i>them</i> away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Healing for the Repentant<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and smote him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are nigh: and the Lord has said, I will heal them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/57-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/56.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 56"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 56" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/58.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 58"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 58" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>