Isaiah 57:1–58:14
1 The righteous man perishes, and no man atakes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from bevil,
They rest in their 1beds,
Each one who awalked in his upright way.
3 “But come here, you sons of a asorceress,
bOffspring of an adulterer and 1a cprostitute.
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of arebellion,
Offspring of deceit,
5 Who inflame yourselves among the 1aoaks,
bUnder every luxuriant tree,
Who cslaughter the children in the 2ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags?
6 “Among the 1asmooth stones of the 2ravine
Is your portion, 3they are your lot;
Even to them you have bpoured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Shall I 4crelent concerning these things?
7 “Upon a ahigh and lofty mountain
You have bmade your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
8 “Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your sign;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have auncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made an agreement for yourself with them,
You have loved their 1bed,
You have looked on their 2manhood.
9 “You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have asent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to 1Sheol.
10 “You were tired out by the length of your road,
Yet you did not say, ‘aIt is hopeless.’
You found 1renewed strength,
Therefore you did not 2faint.
11 “Of awhom were you worried and fearful
When you lied, and did bnot remember Me
Was I not silent even for a long time
So you do not fear Me?
12 “I will adeclare your righteousness and your bdeeds,
But they will not profit you.
13 “When you cry out, alet your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry all of them up,
And a breath will take them away.
But he who btakes refuge in Me will cinherit the land
And will dpossess My holy mountain.”
“aBuild up, build up, prepare the way,
Remove every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
15 For thus says the ahigh and exalted One
Who 1blives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I cdwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the dcontrite and lowly of spirit
In order to erevive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 “For I will anot contend forever,
bNor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the cbreath of those whom I have made.
17 “Because of the iniquity of his aunjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid My face and was angry,
And he went on bturning away, in the way of his heart.
18 “I have seen his ways, but I will aheal him;
I will blead him and crestore comfort to him and to his mourners,
19 Creating the 1apraise of the lips.
bPeace, peace to him who is cfar and to him who is near,”
Says the Lord, “and I will heal him.”
20 But the awicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud.
21 “aThere is no peace,” says bmy God, “for the wicked.”
1 “aCry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their btransgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 “Yet they aseek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done brighteousness
And chas not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight din the nearness of God.
3 ‘Why have we afasted and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not 1notice?’
Behold, on the bday of your fast you find your desire,
And drive hard all your workers.
4 “Behold, you fast for contention and astrife and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like you do today to bmake your voice heard on high.
5 “Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing 1one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out asackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an bacceptable day to the Lord?
6 “Is this not the fast which I choose,
To aloosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to blet the oppressed go free
And cbreak every yoke?
7 “Is it not to adivide your bread 1with the hungry
And bbring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the cnaked, to cover him;
And not to dhide yourself from your own flesh?
8 “Then your alight will break out like the dawn,
And your brecovery will speedily spring forth;
And your crighteousness will go before you;
The glory of the dLord will be your rear guard.
9 “Then you will acall, and the Lord will answer;
You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you bremove the yoke from your midst,
The 1cpointing of the finger and dspeaking wickedness,
10 And if you 1agive yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the 2desire of the afflicted,
Then your blight will rise in darkness
And your gloom will become like midday.
11 “And the aLord will continually guide you,
And bsatisfy your 1desire in scorched places,
And cgive strength to your bones;
And you will be like a dwatered garden,
And like a espring of water whose waters do not 2fail.
12 “Those from among you will arebuild the ancient ruins;
You will braise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the cbreach,
The restorer of the 1streets in which to dwell.
13 “If because of the sabbath, you aturn your foot
From doing your own pleasure on My holy day,
And call the sabbath a bdelight, the holy day of the Lord honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your cown ways,
From seeking your own pleasure
And dspeaking your own word,
14 Then you will take adelight in the Lord,
And I will make you ride bon the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the cmouth of the Lord has spoken.”