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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 American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29057" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29057" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29057001" class="ver">1</span>The just have perished,</p> <p class="sl1">but no one takes it to heart;</p> <p class="sl">The steadfast are swept away,</p> <p class="sl1">while no one understands.</p> <p class="sl">Yet the just are taken away from the presence of evil,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29057002" class="ver">2</span><a id="rfn29057002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057002-1">*</a> and enter into peace;</p> <p class="sl">They rest upon their couches,</p> <p class="sl1">the sincere, who walk in integrity.<a id="ren29057002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057002-a">a</a></p> </div> <section> <h2 class="ah">An Idolatrous People<a id="rfn29057003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057003-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29057003" class="ver">3</span>But you, draw near,</p> <p class="sl1">you children of a sorceress,</p> <p class="sl1">offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!<a id="rfn29057003-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057003-2">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057004" class="ver">4</span>Against whom do you make sport,</p> <p class="sl1">against whom do you open wide your mouth,</p> <p class="sl1">and stick out your tongue?</p> <p class="sl">Are you not rebellious children,</p> <p class="sl1">deceitful offspring—</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057005" class="ver">5</span>You who burn with lust among the oaks,</p> <p class="sl1">under every green tree;</p> <p class="sl">You who immolate children in the wadies,</p> <p class="sl1">among the clefts of the rocks?<a id="rfn29057005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057005-1">*</a> <a id="ren29057005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057006" class="ver">6</span>Among the smooth stones<a id="rfn29057006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057006-1">*</a> of the wadi is your portion,</p> <p class="sl1">they, they are your allotment;</p> <p class="sl">Indeed, you poured out a drink offering to them,</p> <p class="sl1">and brought up grain offerings.</p> <p class="sl1">With these things, should I be appeased?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057007" class="ver">7</span>Upon a towering and lofty mountain</p> <p class="sl1">you set up your bed,</p> <p class="sl1">and there you went up to offer sacrifice.<a id="ren29057007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057007-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057008" class="ver">8</span>Behind the door and the doorpost</p> <p class="sl1">you set up your symbol.</p> <p class="sl">Yes, deserting me, you carried up your bedding;</p> <p class="sl1">and spread it wide.</p> <p class="sl">You entered an agreement with them,</p> <p class="sl1">you loved their couch, you gazed upon nakedness.<a id="rfn29057008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057008-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057009" class="ver">9</span>You approached the king<a id="rfn29057009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057009-1">*</a> with oil,</p> <p class="sl1">and multiplied your perfumes;</p> <p class="sl">You sent your ambassadors far away,</p> <p class="sl1">down even to deepest Sheol.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057010" class="ver">10</span>Though worn out with the length of your journey,</p> <p class="sl1">you never said, “It is hopeless”;</p> <p class="sl">You found your strength revived,</p> <p class="sl1">and so you did not weaken.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057011" class="ver">11</span>Whom did you dread and fear,</p> <p class="sl1">that you told lies,</p> <p class="sl">And me you did not remember</p> <p class="sl1">nor take to heart?</p> <p class="sl">Am I to keep silent and conceal,</p> <p class="sl1">while you show no fear of me?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057012" class="ver">12</span>I will proclaim your justice<a id="rfn29057012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057012-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and your works;</p> <p class="sl1">but they shall not help you.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057013" class="ver">13</span><a id="rfn29057013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057013-1">*</a> When you cry out,</p> <p class="sl1">let your collection of idols save you.</p> <p class="sl">All these the wind shall carry off,</p> <p class="sl1">a mere breath shall bear them away;</p> <p class="sl">But whoever takes refuge in me shall inherit the land,</p> <p class="sl1">and possess my holy mountain.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">The Way to Peace for God’s People</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29057014" class="ver">14</span>And I say:</p> <p class="sl">Build up, build up, prepare the way,</p> <p class="sl1">remove every obstacle from my people’s way.<a id="rfn29057014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057014-1">*</a> <a id="ren29057014-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057014-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057015" class="ver">15</span><a id="rfn29057015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057015-1">*</a> For thus says the high and lofty One,</p> <p class="sl1">the One who dwells forever, whose name is holy:</p> <p class="sl">I dwell in a high and holy place,</p> <p class="sl1">but also with the contrite and lowly of spirit,</p> <p class="sl">To revive the spirit of the lowly,</p> <p class="sl1">to revive the heart of the crushed.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057016" class="ver">16</span>For I will not accuse forever,</p> <p class="sl1">nor always be angry;</p> <p class="sl">For without me their spirit fails,</p> <p class="sl1">the life breath that I have given.<a id="ren29057016-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057016-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057017" class="ver">17</span>Because of their wicked avarice I grew angry;</p> <p class="sl1">I struck them, hiding myself from them in wrath.</p> <p class="sl">But they turned back, following the way</p> <p class="sl1">of their own heart.<a id="ren29057017-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057017-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057018" class="ver">18</span>I saw their ways,</p> <p class="sl1">but I will heal them.</p> <p class="sl">I will lead them and restore full comfort to them</p> <p class="sl1">and to those who mourn for them,<a id="ren29057018-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057018-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29057019" class="ver">19</span>creating words of comfort.<a id="rfn29057019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29057019-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Peace! Peace to those who are far and near,</p> <p class="sl1">says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; and I will heal them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29057020" class="ver">20</span>But the wicked are like the tossing sea</p> <p class="sl1">which cannot be still,</p> <p class="sl">Its waters cast up mire and mud.<a id="ren29057020-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057020-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29057021" class="ver">21</span>There is no peace for the wicked!</p> <p class="sl1">says my God.<a id="ren29057021-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29057021-i">i</a></p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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