Isaiah Chapter 57

• Isaiah 57:1
  Isaiah.
• Isaiah 57:2
  The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• Isaiah 57:3
  He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
• Isaiah 57:4
  “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
• Isaiah 57:5
  Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,
• Isaiah 57:6
  you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
• Isaiah 57:7
  Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an off...
• Isaiah 57:8
  On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
• Isaiah 57:9
  You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged...
• Isaiah 57:10
  You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
• Isaiah 57:11
  You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint...
• Isaiah 57:12
  “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, an...
• Isaiah 57:13
  I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Isaiah 57:14
  When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in...
• Isaiah 57:15
  He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
• Isaiah 57:16
  For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite an...
• Isaiah 57:17
  For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
• Isaiah 57:18
  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart...
• Isaiah 57:19
  I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
• Isaiah 57:20
  I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.”
• Isaiah 57:21
  But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
• Isaiah 57:22
  “There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”