<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1018357">Isaiah</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1019525">Chapter 57</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1019512">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1019547">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Book of Comfort</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019526">1</a>. THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019527">2</a>. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019528">3</a>. But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019529">4</a>. Against whom do ye sport yourselves?  against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?  are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019530">5</a>. Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019531">6</a>. Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering.  Should I receive comfort in these?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019532">7</a>. Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019533">8</a>. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019534">9</a>. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019535">10</a>. Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019536">11</a>. And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?  have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019537">12</a>. I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019538">13</a>. When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019539">14</a>. And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019540">15</a>. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019541">16</a>. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019542">17</a>. For 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019543">18</a>. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019544">19</a>. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019545">20</a>. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1019546">21</a>. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.</li>
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