ISAIAH CHAPTER 57 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

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CHAP. LVII.

1 The blessed death of the righteous. 3 God reproueth the Iewes for their whorish idolatry. 13 Hee giueth Euangelicall promises to the penitent.

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come.¹

² Hee shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his vprightnesse.²

³ ¶ But draw neere hither, yee sonnes of the sorceresse, the seed of the adulterer, and the whore.

⁴ Against whom doe ye sport your selues? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seede of falsehood?

⁵ Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes?⁵

⁶ Among the smooth stones of the streame is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering, thou hast offered a meate offering. Should I receiue comfort in these?

⁷ Upon a loftie and high mountaine hast thou set thy bed: euen thither wentest thou vp to offer sacrifice.

⁸ Behinde the doores also and the posts hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou hast discouered thy selfe to an other then mee, and art gone vp: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a couenant with them: thou louedst their bed where thou sawest it.⁸

⁹ And thou wentest to the king with oyntment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers farre off, and didst debase thy selfe euen vnto hell.⁹

¹⁰ Thou art wearied in the greatnesse of thy way; yet saydst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieued.¹⁰

¹¹ And of whom hast thou bene afraid or feared, that thou hast lyed, and hast not remembred me, nor layed it to thy heart? haue not I held my peace euen of old, and thou fearest me not?

¹² I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit thee.

¹³ ¶ When thou criest, let thy companies deliuer thee: but the winde shall cary them all away; Uanitie shall take them: but hee that putteth his trust in me, shall possesse the land, and shall inherit my holy mountaine.

¹⁴ And shall say, Cast yee vp, cast yee vp; prepare the way, take vp the stumbling blocke out of the way of my people.¹⁴

¹⁵ For thus saith the High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to reuiue the spirit of the humble, and to reuiue the heart of the contrite ones.

¹⁶ For I will not contend for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the spirit should faile before me, and the soules which I haue made.

¹⁷ For the iniquitie of his couetousnesse was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and hee went on frowardly in the way of his heart.¹⁷

¹⁸ I haue seene his wayes, and will heale him: I will leade him also, and restore comforts vnto him, and to his mourners.

¹⁹ I create the fruite of the lippes; peace, peace to him that is farre off, and to him that is neere, sayth the Lord, and I will heale him.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt.

²¹ There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.²¹

Isaiah Chapter 57 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

¹ Hebr. men of kindnesse or godlinesse. , Psal.12. 2. mich.7.2. , Or, from that which is euill.
² Or, goe in peace. , Or, before him.
⁵ Or, among the okes. , 1.Kin.16. 4.
⁸ Or, hewed it for thy selfe larger then theirs. , Or, thou prouidedst roome.
⁹ Or, thou respectedst the King.
¹⁰ Or, liuing.
¹⁴ Chap. 40. 3. and 62. 10.
¹⁷ Hebr. turning away.
²¹ Chap.48. 12.

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