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Isaiah 57

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Isaiah 57
Israel’s Futile Idolatry
1 # Ps 12.1; Isa 42.25; 47.7, 11 The righteous perish,
and no one considers why;
the devout are taken away,
while no one understands
that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.
2 # Isa 26.7 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace
and rest on their couches.
3 # Isa 1.21; Mt 16.4 But as for you, come here,
you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.#57.3 Heb an adulterer and she prostitutes herself
4 # Isa 48.8 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
the offspring of deceit—
5 # Lev 18.21; 2 Kings 16.3, 4; Jer 7.31 you who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 # Jer 3.9; 5.9, 29; 7.18 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion;
it is they who are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering;
you have brought a grain offering.
Should these acts cause me to relent?
7 # Ezek 16.16; 23.14 Upon a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
8 # Ezek 16.26, 28; 23.7, 18 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your symbol,
for in deserting me#57.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain you have uncovered your bed;
you have gone up to it;
you have made it wide;
and you have made a bargain for yourself with them;
you have loved their bed;
you have gazed on their nakedness.#57.8 Or phallus; Heb hand
9 # Ezek 23.16, 40 You journeyed to Molech#57.9 Or the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your envoys far away
and sent them down to Sheol.
10 # Isa 47.13; Jer 2.25 You grew weary from your many wanderings,
but you did not say, “It is no use!”
You found your desire rekindled,
and so you did not weaken.
11 # v 1 ; Ps 50.21; Isa 51.12; Jer 2.32Whom did you dread and fear
so that you lied
and did not remember me
or give me a thought?
Have I not kept silent and closed my eyes,#57.11 Gk Vg: Heb silent even for a long time
and so you do not fear me?
12I will announce your verdict,
and the objects you made will not help you.
13 # Isa 25.4; 60.21; 65.9; Jer 22.20 When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you!
The wind will carry them off;
a breath will take them away.
But whoever takes refuge in me shall possess the land
and inherit my holy mountain.
A Promise of Help and Healing
14 # Isa 62.10; Jer 18.15 It shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way;
remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”
15 # Ps 14.2, 3; 34.18; 51.17; Isa 40.28; 52.13; 61.1; 66.1 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 those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 # Gen 6.3; Job 34.14; Ps 85.5; 103.9; Isa 42.5; Mic 7.18 For I will not continually accuse,
nor will I always be angry,
for then the spirits would grow faint before me,
even the souls that I have made.
17 # Isa 1.4; Jer 6.13 Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry;
I struck them; I hid and was angry,
but they kept turning back to their own ways.
18I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
I will lead them and repay them with comfort,
19 # Isa 52.12; 53.5; 61.1–3; Acts 2.39; Eph 2.17; Heb 13.15 creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.#57.19 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord,
and I will heal them.
20 # Job 18.5–14 But the wicked are like the tossing sea
that cannot keep still;
its waters toss up mire and mud.
21 # Isa 48.22 There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.

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