“Build up, build up, prepare the road!^(A)
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”^(B)
15 For this is what the high and exalted^(C) One says—
    he who lives forever,^(D) whose name is holy:
“I live in a high^(E) and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite^(F) and lowly in spirit,^(G)
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.^(H)
16 I will not accuse^(I) them forever,
    nor will I always be angry,^(J)
for then they would faint away because of me—
    the very people^(K) I have created.
¹⁷ I was enraged by their sinful greed;^(L)
    I punished them, and hid^(M) my face in anger,
    yet they kept on in their willful ways.^(N)
18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal^(O) them;
    I will guide^(P) them and restore comfort^(Q) to Israel’s mourners,
¹⁹     creating praise on their lips.^(R)
Peace, peace,^(S) to those far and near,”^(T)
    says the Lord. “And I will heal them.”
²⁰ But the wicked^(U) are like the tossing sea,^(V)
    which cannot rest,
    whose waves cast up mire^(W) and mud.
²¹ “There is no peace,”^(X) says my God, “for the wicked.”^(Y)