Isaiah 57:14-21 - Peace For The Contrite

¹⁴ And therefore thus he sayeth, "Make ready, make ready, and clean the street, take up what ye can out of the way that leadeth to my people." ¹⁵ For thus sayeth the high and excellent, even he that dwelleth in everlastingness, whose name is the holy one: I dwell high above and in the sanctuary, and with him also, that is of a contrite and humble spirit: that I may heal a troubled mind, and a contrite heart. ¹⁶ For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath. ¹⁷ I am wroth with him for his covetousness and lust, I smite him, I hide me, and am angry, when he turneth himself, and followeth the byway of his own heart. ¹⁸ But if I may see his right way again, I make him whole, I lead him and restore him unto them whom he maketh joyful, and that were sorry for him. ¹⁹ I make the fruits of thanksgiving. I give peace unto them that are far off, and to them that are nigh, say I the LORD, that make him whole. ²⁰ But the wicked are like the raging sea, that cannot rest; whose water foameth with the mire and gravel. ²¹ Even so the wicked have no peace, sayeth my God.