Isaiah 57:14-21 - Peace For The Contrite

¹⁴ And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people. ¹⁵ For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. ¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, nor will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls I have made. ¹⁷ For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart. ¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. ¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips; peace, peace, to him far off, and to him near, says Jehovah; and I will heal him. ²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. ²¹ There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.