Isaiah 57:1-5

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57 The righteous man perishes,
    and no one lays it to heart;
^(A)devout men are taken away,
    while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
^{2     (B)}he enters into peace;
they rest ^(C)in their beds
    who walk in their uprightness.
³ But you, draw near,
    sons of the sorceress,
    ^(D)offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
⁴ Whom are you mocking?
    Against whom ^(E)do you open your mouth wide
    and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of ^(F)transgression,
    ^(G)the offspring of deceit,
⁵ you who burn with lust among ^(H)the oaks,^[a]
    under every green tree,
^(I)who slaughter your children in the valleys,
    under the clefts of the rocks?