Isaiah 57

New King James Version

³ “But come here,
^(D)You sons of the sorceress,
You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
⁴ Whom do you ridicule?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
And stick out the tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
Offspring of falsehood,
⁵ Inflaming yourselves with gods ^(E)under every green tree,
^(F)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
⁶ Among the smooth ^(G)stones of the stream
Is your portion;
They, they, are your lot!
Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I receive comfort in ^(H)these?

⁷ “On^(I) a lofty and high mountain
You have set ^(J)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.
⁸ Also behind the doors and their posts
You have set up your remembrance;
For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
And have gone up to them;
You have enlarged your bed
And ^[b]made a covenant with them;
^(K)You have loved their bed,
Where you saw their ^[c]nudity.
^9 (L)You went to the king with ointment,
And increased your perfumes;
You sent your ^(M)messengers far off,
And even descended to Sheol.
¹⁰ You are wearied in the length of your way;
^(N)Yet you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’
You have found the life of your hand;
Therefore you were not grieved.

¹¹ “And ^(O)of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because ^(P)I have ^[d]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?
¹² I will declare your righteousness
And your works,
For they will not profit you.
¹³ When you cry out,
Let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry them all away,
A breath will take them.
But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,
And shall inherit My holy mountain.”

¹⁵ For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, ^(R)whose name is Holy:
^(S)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
^(T)With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
^(U)To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
^16 (V)For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would fail before Me,
And the souls ^(W)which I have made.
¹⁷ For the iniquity of ^(X)his covetousness
I was angry and struck him;
^(Y)I hid and was angry,
^(Z)And he went on ^[e]backsliding in the way of his heart.
¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and ^(AA)will heal him;
I will also lead him,
And restore comforts to him
And to ^(AB)his mourners.

¹⁹ “I create ^(AC)the fruit of the lips:
Peace, peace ^(AD)to him who is far off and to him who is near,”
Says the Lord,
“And I will heal him.”
^20 (AE)But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

²¹ “There^(AF) is no peace,”
Says my God, “for the wicked.”