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Isaiah 57 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Isa 57:1

Isa 57:1The 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 to come.

Isa 57:2

Isa 57:2He enters into shalom; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Isa 57:3

Isa 57:3But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

Isa 57:4

Isa 57:4Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

Isa 57:5

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

Isa 57:6

Isa 57:6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

Isa 57:7

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

Isa 57:8

Isa 57:8Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.

Isa 57:9

Isa 57:9You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to She'ol.

Isa 57:10

Isa 57:10You 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.

Isa 57:11

Isa 57:11Of 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 shalom even of long time, and you don't fear me?

Isa 57:12

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

Isa 57:13

Isa 57:13When 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.

Isa 57:14

Isa 57:14He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

Isa 57:15

Isa 57:15For 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.

Isa 57:16

Isa 57:16For 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.

Isa 57:17

Isa 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid my face and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Isa 57:18

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

Isa 57:19

Isa 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Shalom, shalom, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

Isa 57:20

Isa 57:20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

Isa 57:21

Isa 57:21There is no shalom, says my God, to the wicked.
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