Isaiah 57

1 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.

[the] righteous to perish and nothing man: anyone to set: put upon heart and human kindness to gather in/on/with nothing to understand for from face: before [the] distress: harm to gather [the] righteous

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

to come (in): come peace to rest upon bed their to go: walk straightforward his

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

and you(m. p.) to present: come here/thus son: child to divine seed: children to commit adultery and to fornicate

4 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,

upon who? to delight upon who? to enlarge lip to prolong tongue not you(m. p.) youth transgression seed: children deception

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

[the] to warm in/on/with terebinth underneath: under all tree luxuriant to slaughter [the] youth in/on/with torrent: valley underneath: under cleft [the] crag

6 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?

in/on/with smooth torrent: river portion your they(masc.) they(masc.) allotted your also to/for them to pour: pour drink offering to ascend: establish offering upon these to be sorry: relent

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

upon mountain: mount high and to lift: raise to set: make bed your also there to ascend: rise to/for to sacrifice sacrifice

8 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.

and after [the] door and [the] doorpost to set: make memorial your for from with me to reveal: uncover and to ascend: rise to enlarge bed your and to cut: make(covenant) to/for you from them to love: lover bed their hand: penis to see

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

and to travel to/for king in/on/with oil and to multiply perfumery your and to send: depart envoy your till from distant and to abase till hell: Sheol (Sheol h7585)

10 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.

in/on/with abundance way: journey your be weary/toil not to say to despair living thing hand: power your to find upon so not be weak: weak

11 “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?

and [obj] who? be anxious and to fear: revere for to lie and [obj] me not to remember not to set: put upon heart your not I be silent and from forever: antiquity and [obj] me not to fear: revere

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

I to tell righteousness your and [obj] deed your and not to gain you

13 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.”

in/on/with to cry out you to rescue you collection your and [obj] all their to lift: bear spirit: breath to take: take vanity and [the] to seek refuge in/on/with me to inherit land: country/planet and to possess: possess mountain: mount holiness my

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

and to say to build to build to turn way: road to exalt stumbling from way: road people my

15 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.

for thus to say to exalt and to lift: exalt to dwell perpetuity and holy name his height and holy to dwell and with contrite and low spirit to/for to live spirit low and to/for to live heart to crush

16 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.

for not to/for forever: enduring to contend and not to/for perpetuity be angry for spirit from to/for face: before my to enfeeble and breath I to make

17 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.

in/on/with iniquity: crime unjust-gain his be angry and to smite him to hide and be angry and to go: went turning back in/on/with way: conduct heart his

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

way: conduct his to see: see and to heal him and to lead him and to complete comfort to/for him and to/for mourning his

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

to create (fruit *QK) lips peace peace to/for distant and to/for near to say LORD and to heal him

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

and [the] wicked like/as sea to drive out: drive out for to quiet not be able and to drive out: drive out water his mire and mud

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

nothing peace to say God my to/for wicked