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Isaiah
Chapter 57
1
The righteous perishes,
and
no man lays it to his heart/'right lobe'.
And
merciful men are taken away,
none
considering that the righteous is taken away
from
the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace.
They
shall rest in their beds,
each
one walking in his uprightness.
3
But draw near here,
you
sons of the sorceress,
the
seed of the adulterer
and
the whore.
4 Against whom do you sport yourselves?
Against
whom make you a wide mouth,
and
draw out the tongue?
Are
you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5
enflaming
yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying
the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
{Note: This is the false idol worship of the Phallic Cult. Sexual orgies that included child sacrifice in the fires so the sexual experience was heightened in all this perversion.}
6
Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion;
they,
they are your lot.
Even
to them you have poured a drink offering,
you
have offered a meat offering.
Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed.
Even there went you up to offer sacrifice.
8
Behind the doors also and the posts
you
have set up your remembrance.
For
you have discovered yourself to another than Me,
and
are gone up.
You
have enlarged your bed,
and
made you a covenant with them.
You loved their bed where you saw it.
9
And you went to the king with ointment,
and
did increase your perfumes,
and
did send your messengers far off,
and
did debase yourself even unto the grave/Sheol.
10
You are wearied in the greatness of your way;
Yet
said you not, There is no hope.
You have found the life of your hand.
Therefore you were not grieved.
11
And of whom you have been afraid or feared,
that
you have lied,
and
has not remembered Me,
nor
laid it to your heart/'right lobe'?
Have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear Me not?
12
I will declare your righteousness, and your works . . .
for
they shall not profit you.
13
When you cry,
let
your companies deliver you;
but
the wind shall carry them all away;
vanity/emptiness
shall take them.
But
he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,
and
shall inherit My holy mountain.
14
And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way,
take
up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
15
For thus said the high and lofty One
Who
inhabits eternity,
Whose
name is Holy;
I
dwell in the high and holy place,
with
Him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to
revive the spirit of the humble,
and
to revive the heart/'right lobe' of the contrite ones.
16~~And
I {God} will not contend forever . . .
neither
will I be always angry . . .
for
the spirit will grow faint before Me . . .
and
the spark of life/souls which I have manufactured.
17
For the 'punishment for sin'/iniquity {`avon}
of
his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him.
I
hid me, and was wroth,
and
he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.
I
will lead him also,
and
restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19
I create the fruit of the lips;
Peace,
peace to him who is far off,
and
to him who is near, said Jehovah/God; and I will heal him.
20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
when
it cannot rest,
whose
waters cast up mire and dirt.
21
There is no peace, said My 'Elohiym/Godhead,
to
the wicked.
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