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But draw near to here, you sons of a sorceress,
    offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.
Whom do you mock?
    Against whom do you open wide your mouth
    and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
    offspring of falsehood,
inflaming yourselves with idols
    under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys
    under the clefts of the rocks?
Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion;
    they are your lot.
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering;
    you have offered a grain offering.
    Should I relent concerning these things?
On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed;
    even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors and the doorposts
    you have set up your memorial;
far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself;
    you have enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them;
you have loved their bed,
    you have looked on their nakedness.
You went to the king with ointment,
    and increased your perfumes,
and sent your messengers far off,
    and made them go down to Sheol.
10 You were wearied by the length of your road;
    yet you did not say, “There is no hope.”
You have found renewed strength;
    therefore, you did not faint.

11 Of whom were you afraid or fearful
    when you lied
and you did not remember Me,
    nor give Me a thought?
Have I not held My peace for a long time
    so that you do not fear Me?
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works,
    yet they shall not profit you.
13 When you cry out,
    let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind shall carry them all away,
    a breath shall take them away.
But he who puts his trust in Me
    shall possess the land
    and shall inherit My holy mountain.

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But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot. Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, ye that inflame yourselves [a]among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered [b]an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things? Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them: thou lovedst their bed where [c]thou sawest it. And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol. 10 Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find [d]a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not [e]faint.

11 And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not? 12 I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee. 13 When thou criest, let [f]them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or, with idols
  2. Isaiah 57:6 Or, a meal-offering
  3. Isaiah 57:8 Or, thou providedst room for it
  4. Isaiah 57:10 Hebrew the life of thy hand.
  5. Isaiah 57:10 Hebrew sick.
  6. Isaiah 57:13 Or, thy rabble of idols