nsb - Isaiah:57

nsb@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perishes and no man takes it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil.

nsb@Isaiah:57:2 @ He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

nsb@Isaiah:57:3 @ »But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute!

nsb@Isaiah:57:4 @ With whom are you effeminate? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?

nsb@Isaiah:57:5 @ Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

nsb@Isaiah:57:6 @ »Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort?

nsb@Isaiah:57:7 @ »You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

nsb@Isaiah:57:8 @ »You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood.

nsb@Isaiah:57:9 @ »You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave.

nsb@Isaiah:57:10 @ »You are wearied because of the length of your trip. Yet you did not say: I give up. There is no hope. You have found the renewal of your strength. Therefore you were not grieved.

nsb@Isaiah:57:11 @ »Who frightened you? Who made you afraid, that you have lied and not remembered me? You did not take it to your heart. Is it not because I have held my peace from of old that you do not reverence me?

nsb@Isaiah:57:12 @ »I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.

nsb@Isaiah:57:13 @ »When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

nsb@Isaiah:57:14 @ »One will say: Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way; Take the stumbling block out of the way of my people.«

nsb@Isaiah:57:15 @ The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.

nsb@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend forever! Nor will I always be angry! The spirit would fail before me, and those whom I have made.

nsb@Isaiah:57:17 @ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness gain I was angry and struck him. I hid and was angry. He went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

nsb@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

nsb@Isaiah:57:19 @ I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

nsb@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the troubled and restless sea, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

nsb@Isaiah:57:21 @ My God has said: »There is no peace for the wicked.«