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Isaiah 57
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Chapter 57
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The upright perish and no one cares. Devout men are taken off and no one gives it a thought. Yes, on account of evil the upright man is taken off
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to enter peace. They lie on their beds those who followed the right way.
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But you, you sons of a witch, come here, offspring of the adulterer and the whore.
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At whom are you jeering, and making faces, and sticking out your tongue? Are you not the spawn of sin, children of lies?
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Lusting among the terebinths, and under every spreading tree, sacrificing children in the wadis and in rocky clefts.
Prophetic elegy against idolatry
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The smooth stones of the wadis, these are your share, these, these your portion. To these you pour libations, bring oblations. Can all this appease me?
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On a mountain high and lofty you have put your bed. Thither, too, you have climbed to offer sacrifice.
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Behind door and doorpost you have set up your sign.[*a] Yes, far removed from me, you unroll your bedding, climb into it and spread it wide. You have struck a pact with those whose bed you love, whoring with them often with your eyes on the sacred symbol.
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With oil you made yourself look your best for Molech, lavishing your scents; you sent your envoys far afield, down to Sheol itself.[*b]
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Tired with so much journeying, you never said, ‘I give up’. Finding your strength revived, you never weakened.
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Who was it you dreaded, and feared, that you should disown me and not remember me, and refuse me a place in your heart? Meanwhile I kept silent and shut my eyes, did I not? So you cannot have been afraid of me.
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But now I will expose this integrity of yours and your futile actions.
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When you cry, let your hateful idols save you! The wind will carry them all away, a breath will take them off. But whoever trusts in me shall inherit the land and own my holy mountain.
A poem of consolation
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It shall be said: Open up, open up, clear the way, remove all obstacles from the way of my people.
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For thus speaks the Most High, whose home is in eternity, whose name is holy: ‘I live in a high and holy place, but I am also with the contrite and humbled spirit, to give the humbled spirit new life, to revive contrite hearts.
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‘For I will not quarrel for ever nor be always angry, for then the spirit would give way before me, the very souls I have made.
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‘Angered by his wicked brutality, I hid my face and struck him in anger. Like a rebel he went the way of his choice;
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but I have seen the way he went. But I will heal him, and console him, I will comfort him to the full, both him and his afflicted fellows,
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bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to far and near, I will indeed heal him’ says Yahweh.
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The wicked however are like the restless sea that cannot be still, and washes up mud and slime.
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‘No peace’ says my God ‘for the wicked.’
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