Isaiah 57:12 - Prayer Tents

Isaiah 57

57Meanwhile, right-living people die and no one gives them a thought. God-fearing people are carted off and no one even notices. The right-living people are out of their misery, they're finally at rest.H6662H6H376H7760H3820H2617H582H622H995H6662H622H6440H74512They lived well and with dignity and now they're finally at peace.H935H7965H5117H4904H1980H52283"But you, children of a witch, come here! Sons of a slut, daughters of a whore.H7126H1121H6049H2233H5003H21814What business do you have taunting, sneering, and sticking out your tongue? Do you have any idea what wretches you've turned out to be? A race of rebels, a generation of liars.H6026H7337H6310H748H3956H3206H6588H2233H82675You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade and fornicate at whim. You kill your children at any convenient spot— any cave or crevasse will do.H2552H410H7488H6086H7819H3206H5158H5585H55536You take stones from the creek and set up your sex-and-religion shrines. You've chosen your fate. Your worship will be your doom.H2511H5158H2506H1486H8210H5262H5927H4503H51627You've climbed a high mountain to practice your foul sex-and-death religion.H1364H5375H2022H7760H4904H5927H2076H20778Behind closed doors you assemble your precious gods and goddesses. Deserting me, you've gone all out, stripped down and made your bed your place of worship. You've climbed into bed with the 'sacred' whores and loved every minute of it, adoring every curve of their naked bodies.H310H1817H4201H7760H2146H1540H5927H7337H4904H3772H157H4904H3027H23729You anoint your king-god with ointments and lavish perfumes on yourselves. You send scouts to search out the latest in religion, send them all the way to hell and back.H7788H4428H8081H7235H7547H7971H6735H7350H8213H758510You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different, and never see what a waste it all is. You've always found strength for the latest fad, never got tired of trying new religions.H3021H7230H1870H559H2976H4672H2416H3027H247011"Who talked you into the pursuit of this nonsense, leaving me high and dry, forgetting you ever knew me? Because I don't yell and make a scene do you think I don't exist?H1672H3372H3576H2142H7760H3820H2814H5769H337212I'll go over, detail by detail, all your 'righteous' attempts at religion, and expose the absurdity of it all.H5046H6666H4639H327613Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: A good wind will blow them away. They're smoke, nothing but smoke. "But anyone who runs to me for help will inherit the land, will end up owning my holy mountain!"H2199H6899H5337H7307H5375H1892H3947H2620H5157H776H3423H6944H202214Someone says: "Build, build! Make a road! Clear the way, remove the rocks from the road my people will travel."H559H5549H5549H6437H1870H7311H4383H1870H597115A Message from the high and towering God, who lives in Eternity, whose name is Holy: "I live in the high and holy places, but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed, And what I do is put new spirit in them, get them up and on their feet again.H559H7311H5375H7931H5703H8034H6918H7931H4791H6918H1793H8217H7307H2421H7307H8217H2421H3820H179216For I'm not going to haul people into court endlessly, I'm not going to be angry forever. Otherwise, people would lose heart. These souls I created would tire out and give up.H7378H5769H5331H7107H7307H5848H6440H5397H621317I was angry, good and angry, because of Israel's sins. I struck him hard and turned away in anger, while he kept at his stubborn, willful ways.H5771H1215H7107H5221H5641H7107H3212H7726H1870H382018When I looked again and saw what he was doing, I decided to heal him, lead him, and comfort him, creating a new language of praise for the mourners.H7200H1870H7495H5148H7999H5150H5719Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand," says GOD— "and yes, I will heal them.H1254H5108H8193H7965H7965H7350H7138H559H3068H749520But the wicked are storm-battered seas that can't quiet down. The waves stir up garbage and mud.H7563H1644H3220H3201H8252H4325H1644H7516H291621There's no peace," God says, "for the wicked.H7965H559H430H7563