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Isaiah 57
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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.H6662H6H376H7760H3820H2617H582H622H995H6662H622H6440H7451 2They lived well and with dignity and now they're finally at peace.H935H7965H5117H4904H1980H5228 3"But you, children of a witch, come here! Sons of a slut, daughters of a whore.H7126H1121H6049H2233H5003H2181 4What 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.H6026H7337H6310H748H3956H3206H6588H2233H8267 5You 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.H2552H410H7488H6086H7819H3206H5158H5585H5553 6You take stones from the creek and set up your sex-and-religion shrines. You've chosen your fate. Your worship will be your doom.H2511H5158H2506H1486H8210H5262H5927H4503H5162 7You've climbed a high mountain to practice your foul sex-and-death religion.H1364H5375H2022H7760H4904H5927H2076H2077 8Behind 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.H310H1817H4201H7760H2146H1540H5927H7337H4904H3772H157H4904H3027H2372 9You 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.H7788H4428H8081H7235H7547H7971H6735H7350H8213H7585 10You 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.H3021H7230H1870H559H2976H4672H2416H3027H2470 11"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?H1672H3372H3576H2142H7760H3820H2814H5769H3372 12I'll go over, detail by detail, all your 'righteous' attempts at religion, and expose the absurdity of it all.H5046H6666H4639H3276 13Go 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!"H2199H6899H5337H7307H5375H1892H3947H2620H5157H776H3423H6944H2022 14Someone says: "Build, build! Make a road! Clear the way, remove the rocks from the road my people will travel."H559H5549H5549H6437H1870H7311H4383H1870H5971 15A 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.H559H7311H5375H7931H5703H8034H6918H7931H4791H6918H1793H8217H7307H2421H7307H8217H2421H3820H1792 16For 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.H7378H5769H5331H7107H7307H5848H6440H5397H6213 17I 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.H5771H1215H7107H5221H5641H7107H3212H7726H1870H3820 18When 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.H7200H1870H7495H5148H7999H5150H57 19Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand," says GOD— "and yes, I will heal them.H1254H5108H8193H7965H7965H7350H7138H559H3068H7495 20But the wicked are storm-battered seas that can't quiet down. The waves stir up garbage and mud.H7563H1644H3220H3201H8252H4325H1644H7516H2916 21There's no peace," God says, "for the wicked.H7965H559H430H7563


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