Isaiah 57:13-17

English Standard Version

^13 (A)When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you!
    The wind will carry them all off,
    a breath will take them away.
^(B)But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land
    and shall inherit ^(C)my holy mountain.

¹⁴ And it shall be said,
^(D)“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
    remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
¹⁵ For thus says ^(E)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is ^(F)Holy:
^(G)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also ^(H)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
^(I)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.
^16 (J)For I will not contend forever,
    nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
    and the breath of life that I made.
¹⁷ Because of the iniquity of his ^(K)unjust gain I was angry,
    I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
    but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.