Isaiah 57:14-21

Modern English Version

“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
    take up every stumbling block out of the way of My people.”
¹⁵ For thus says the High and Lofty One
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
    and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
¹⁶ For I will not contend forever,
    nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before Me,
    and the souls whom I have made.
¹⁷ For the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
    I hid My face and was wrathful,
    and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.
¹⁸ I have seen his ways but will heal him;
    I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
¹⁹     by creating the fruit of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,
    says the Lord, and I will heal him.
²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled
    sea when it cannot rest,
    whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
²¹ There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.