Healing for the Repentant

14 And it will be said,

“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,

take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,

who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:

“I dwell in a high and holy place,

and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,

to restore the spirit of the lowly

and revive the heart of the contrite.

16 For I will not accuse you forever,

nor will I always be angry;

for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me,

with the breath of those I have made.

17 I was enraged by his sinful greed,

so I struck him and hid My face in anger;

yet he kept turning back

to the desires of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways,

but I will heal him;

I will guide him and restore comfort

to him and his mourners,

19 bringing praise to their lips.

Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD,

“and I will heal them.”

20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,

for it cannot be still,

and its waves churn up mire and muck.

21 “There is no peace,” says my God,

“for the wicked.”