Isaiah:57

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* The righteous perishes , and no man lays it to heart ; and merciful men are taken away , none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil . * He enters into peace ; they rest in their beds , each one who walks in his uprightness . * "But draw near here , you sons of the sorceress , the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute . * Against whom do you sport yourselves ? Against whom do you make a wide mouth , and stick out your tongue ? Aren 't you children of disobedience , a seed of falsehood , * you who inflame yourselves among the oaks , under every green tree ; who kill the children in the valleys , under the clefts of the rocks ? * 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 offering . Shall I be appeased for these things ? * On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed ; there also you went up to offer sacrifice . * Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your memorial : for you have uncovered to someone besides me , and have gone up ; you have enlarged your bed , and made you a covenant with them : you loved their bed where you saw it . * You went to the king with oil , and increased your perfumes , and sent your ambassadors far off , and debased yourself even to Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead .}. * You were wearied with the length of your way ; yet you didn 't say , 'It is in vain .' You found a reviving of your strength ; therefore you weren 't faint . * "Of whom have you been afraid and in fear , that you lie , and have not remembered me , nor laid it to your heart ? Haven 't I held my peace even of long time , and you don 't fear me ? * I will declare your righteousness ; and as for your works , they shall not profit you . * When you cry , let those who you have gathered deliver you ; but the wind shall take them , a breath shall carry them all away : but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land , and shall inherit my holy mountain ." * He will say , "Cast up , cast up , prepare the way , take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people ." * For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity , whose name is Holy : "I dwell in the high and holy place , with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit , to revive the spirit of the humble , and to revive the heart of the contrite . * For I will not contend forever , neither will I be always angry ; for the spirit would faint before me , and the souls who I have made . * For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry , and struck him ; I hid myself and was angry ; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart . * I have seen his ways , and will heal him : I will lead him also , and restore comforts to him and to his mourners . * I create the fruit of the lips : Peace , peace , to him who is far off and to him who is near ," says Yahweh ; "and I will heal them ." * But the wicked are like the troubled sea ; for it can 't rest , and its waters cast up mire and dirt . * "There is no peace ," says my God , "for the wicked ."

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