Isaiah 57

1 The righteous [person] he has perished and there not [is] anyone [who] puts on heart and people of loyalty [are] being removed when there not [is one who] understands that from before evil he is removed the righteous [person].

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

2 He will go peace they will rest on beds their [one who] walks uprightness his.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

3 And you draw near hither O children of a soothsayer offspring adulterous and she has played [the] prostitute.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

4 On whom? are you making fun on whom? do you make wide a mouth do you make long? a tongue ¿ not [are] you children of transgression of spring of deception.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

5 Who inflame yourselves among the oaks under every tree luxuriant [who] slaughter children in the wadis under [the] clefts of the cliffs.

you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

6 [is] among [the] smooth [stones] of [the] wadi Portion your they they [are] allotted portion your also to them you have poured out a drink offering you have offered up a grain offering ¿ on these [things] will I relent.

Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

7 On a mountain high and lifted up you have set bed your also there you have gone up to sacrifice a sacrifice.

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

8 And behind the door and the doorpost you have set up memorial your for from with me you have uncovered and you have gone up you have made wide bed your and you have cut off for yourself from them you have loved bed their a hand you have seen.

You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.

9 And you journeyed to the king with oil and you increased perfumes your and you sent envoys your to from a distance and you showed abasement to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

10 With [the] greatness of journey your you became weary not you said despairing [the] life of hand your you found there-fore not you became weak.

You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.

11 And whom? did you dread and did you fear? that you will lie and me not you remembered not you put [it] on heart your ¿ not [am] I silent and from long ago and me not you fear.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

12 I I will declare righteousness your and deeds your and not they will benefit you.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

13 When cry out you let them deliver you collection your and all of them it will carry away a wind it will take [them] away a breath and the [one who] takes refuge in me he will inherit [the] land so he may possess [the] mountain of holiness my.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

14 And someone will say build up build up make clear [the] way lift up obstacle[s] from [the] way of people my.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

15 For thus he says [the] high [one] and [the] exalted [one] [the one who] dwells perpetuity and [is] holy name his a high place and a holy [place] I dwell and with a [person] contrite and a [person] lowly of spirit to restore [the] spirit of lowly [people] and to restore [the] heart of contrite [people].

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

16 For not for ever I will conduct a case and not to perpetuity I will be angry for spirit from to before me it will grow faint and breaths [which] I I made.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

17 In [the] iniquity of unjust gain his I was angry and I struck him I hid and I may be angry and he walked apostate in [the] way of own heart his.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

18 Ways his I have seen and I will heal him and I will lead him and I may restore comfort to him and to mourners his.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

19 [I am] about to create ([the] fruit *QK) Lips peace - peace to distant [person] and to near [person] he says Yahweh and I will heal him.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.”

20 And the wicked [people] [are] like the sea tossed for to be quiet not it is able and they have tossed up waters its mire and mud.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

21 Not peace he says God my [belongs] to wicked [people].

“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”