Isaiah:56:9-57:13

web@Isaiah:56:9 @ All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

web@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

web@Isaiah:56:11 @ Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

web@Isaiah:56:12 @ "Come," say they, "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure."

web@Isaiah:57:1 @ 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.

web@Isaiah:57:2 @ He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

web@Isaiah:57:3 @ "But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

web@Isaiah:57:4 @ 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,

web@Isaiah:57:5 @ you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

web@Isaiah:57:6 @ 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?

web@Isaiah:57:7 @ On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

web@Isaiah:57:8 @ 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.

web@Isaiah:57:9 @ 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.}.

web@Isaiah:57:10 @ 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.

web@Isaiah:57:11 @ "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?

web@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

web@Isaiah:57:13 @ 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."

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