Isaiah 57:14-21 - Peace For The Contrite
14 And one has said: "Build up! Build up the road! Prepare the highway! Remove every obstacle from my people's way.' 15 "For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 16 For I won't accuse forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the human spirit would grow faint before me even the souls that I have created. 17 Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will. 18 I've seen his ways, yet I will heal him, and restore for him comfort to him and for those who mourn for him 19 when I create the fruit of the lips: Peace to the one who is far away or near," says the LORD, "and I'll heal him. 20 But the wicked are tossed like the sea; for it is not able to keep still, and its waters toss up mire and mud. 21 "Yet there is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."