Isaiah 57:14-21

Common English Bible

¹⁴ It will be said: “Survey, survey; build a road!
    Remove barriers from my people’s road!”
¹⁵ The one who is high and lifted up,
    who lives forever, whose name is holy, says:
I live on high, in holiness,
    and also with the crushed^[a] and the lowly,
    reviving the spirit of the lowly,
    reviving the heart of those who have been crushed.^[b]
16 I won’t always accuse,
    nor will I be enraged forever.
    It is my own doing that their spirit is exhausted—
    I gave them breath!
¹⁷ I was enraged about their illegal profits;
    I struck them; in rage I withdrew from them.
Yet they went on wandering wherever they wanted.
¹⁸     I have seen their ways, but I will heal them.
    I will guide them,
        and reward them with comfort.
And for those who mourn,
¹⁹     I will create reason for praise:^[c]
    utter prosperity to those far and near,
    and I will heal them, says the Lord.
²⁰ But the wicked are like the churning sea that can’t keep still.
    They churn up from their waters muck and mud.
²¹     There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.