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OEB ISA Chapter 57

ISA 57 ©

57The righteous are being destroyed,

and no man lays it to heart;

the godly are swept away,

and no man gives it a thought.

’Tis the wickedness prevailing

that sweeps the righteous away;

2but he enters into peace,

and those whose walk has been upright

do rest at last on their biers.

The idolatrous people

3But you – hither approach,

you children of a sorcerers;

you offspring of whore and adulterer,

4whom are you making sport of?

At whom are you making wide mouths,

and putting out our tongue?

Are you not apostate children,

a very brood of falsehood,

5who inflame yourselves at the oaks,

and under each green tree;

who in valleys slaughter children

amidst the clefts of the rocks?


6The slippery gods of the valley –

those, those you have taken for your portion.

Yes, to them you have poured your drink-offerings

and rendered on oblation:

and should I with such things be appeased?

7And you did set your bed

on a high and lofty mountain,

and thither you did go

to offer up your sacrifice.


8Behind the door and the door-posts

your symbol you did set;

inflamed, you did uncover,

did go up and enlarge your bed.

And you did purchase you lovers,

whose wantonness you loved;

and did multiply your whoredoms,

when your eyes beheld the phallus.


9For Melech you did anoint you

and multiply your perfumes;

you did send your ambassadors far,

yea, down to the depths of Sheol.

10Though weary with many journeys,

you said not, ‘I despair.’

But ever new strength you gained,

and therefore you did not desist.


11Of whom were you then in such abject terror

that you did play the traitor,

and gave no thought to me,

nor did lay your duty to heart?

I hid my eyes in silence,

and me you did not fear.

12But I will expose your doings,

this ‘righteousness’ of yours.


13When you cry, your hateful idols

will profit you nothing, nor save you;

the wind will lift them all,

and a breath will take them away.

But who trusts in me will possess the land,

and inherit my holy mountain.

Blessings in store for the faithful

14O raise, raise a highway, and clear you a path,

take the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

15For thus says he who is high and exalted,

whose throne is for ever, whose name is holy:

‘On high as the Holy One sit I enthroned,

and with him who is crushed, who is lowly in spirit;

to quicken the spirit of them who are lowly,

and the heart of all such as crushed to revive.


16For not for ever will I contend,

nor cherish my anger evermore;

for then would the spirits faint before me,

the souls that I myself have made.

17Because of his sin I was worth for a moment,

I smote him in anger and hid my face:

but he kept to the way of his rebel heart –

18I have noted his ways,’ says the Lord.

‘But now will I bring to him healing and rest,

and requite him with full consolation.

19The lips of his mourners will blossom with praise,

when to far and to near I bring peace and prosperity,

whose waters cast up mire and dirt.’

21So peace there is none, says my God, to the wicked.

The true and the false worship

Fasting

ISA 57 ©

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