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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Israel’s Futile Idolatry</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The righteous perish,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and no one takes it to heart;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the devout are taken away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">while no one understands.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For the righteous are taken away from calamity,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>and they enter into peace;</span></span><br /><span class="text">those who walk uprightly</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">will rest on their couches.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>But as for you, come here,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you children of a sorceress,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you offspring of an adulterer and a whore.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22655a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Whom are you mocking?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Against whom do you open your mouth wide</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and stick out your tongue?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Are you not children of transgression,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the offspring of deceit—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>you that burn with lust among the oaks,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">under every green tree;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you that slaughter your children in the valleys,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">under the clefts of the rocks?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they, they, are your lot;</span></span><br /><span class="text">to them you have poured out a drink offering,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have brought a grain offering.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Shall I be appeased for these things?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Upon a high and lofty mountain</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have set your bed,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and there you went up to offer sacrifice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Behind the door and the doorpost</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have set up your symbol;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for, in deserting me,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22660b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> you have uncovered your bed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have gone up to it,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have made it wide;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and you have made a bargain for yourself with them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have loved their bed,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have gazed on their nakedness.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22660c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>You journeyed to Molech<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22661d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> with oil,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and multiplied your perfumes;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you sent your envoys far away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sent down even to Sheol.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You grew weary from your many wanderings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you did not say, “It is useless.”</span></span><br /><span class="text">You found your desire rekindled,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and so you did not weaken.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Whom did you dread and fear</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that you lied,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and did not remember me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or give me a thought?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Have I not kept silent and closed my eyes,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22663e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and so you do not fear me?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I will concede your righteousness and your works,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but they will not help you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">The wind will carry them off,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a breath will take them away.</span></span><br /><span class="text">But whoever takes refuge in me shall possess the land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and inherit my holy mountain.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Promise of Help and Healing</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>It shall be said,</span><br /><span class="text">“Build up, build up, prepare the way,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>For thus says the high and lofty one</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:</span></span><br /><span class="text">I dwell in the high and holy place,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to revive the spirit of the humble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For I will not continually accuse,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor will I always be angry;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for then the spirits would grow faint before me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">even the souls that I have made.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I struck them, I hid and was angry;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but they kept turning back to their own ways.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will lead them and repay them with comfort,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22670f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and I will heal them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>But the wicked are like the tossing sea</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that cannot keep still;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">its waters toss up mire and mud.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.</span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:3">Isaiah 57:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>an adulterer and she plays the whore</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:8">Isaiah 57:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:8">Isaiah 57:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>their phallus</i>; Heb <i>the hand</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:9">Isaiah 57:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the king</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:11">Isaiah 57:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Vg: Heb <i>silent even for a long time</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 57:18">Isaiah 57:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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