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Isaiah 57

21 verses · King James Version

  1. 1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth to heart: and merciful men taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evilCompare translations of Isaiah 57:1
  2. 2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, walking his uprightness.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:2
  3. 3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:3
  4. 4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, draw out the tongue? ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,Compare translations of Isaiah 57:4
  5. 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?Compare translations of Isaiah 57:5
  6. 6Among the smooth of the stream thy portion; they, they thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?Compare translations of Isaiah 57:6
  7. 7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:7
  8. 8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawestCompare translations of Isaiah 57:8
  9. 9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase unto hell.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:9
  10. 10Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:10
  11. 11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?Compare translations of Isaiah 57:11
  12. 12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:12
  13. 13When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;Compare translations of Isaiah 57:13
  14. 14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:14
  15. 15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name Holy; I dwell in the high and holy with him also of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:15
  16. 16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls I have made.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:16
  17. 17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:17
  18. 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:18
  19. 19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to far off, and to near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:19
  20. 20But the wicked like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:20
  21. 21no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.Compare translations of Isaiah 57:21