Thematic Bible
Isaiah 57:1 (show verse)
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence
Isaiah 57:2 (show verse)
they will rest on their beds
everyone who lives uprightly.
Isaiah 57:3 (show verse)
you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
Isaiah 57:4 (show verse)
Who is it you are opening your mouth
and sticking out your tongue at?
Isn’t it you, you rebellious children,
you race of liars,
Isaiah 57:5 (show verse)
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 57:6 (show verse)
indeed, they are your lot.
You have even poured out a drink offering to them;
you have offered a grain offering;
should I be satisfied with these?
Isaiah 57:7 (show verse)
on a high and lofty mountain;
you also went up there to offer sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:8 (show verse)
behind the door and doorpost.
For away from Me, you stripped,
went up, and made your bed wide,
and you have made a bargain
You have loved their bed;
you have gazed on their genitals.
Isaiah 57:9 (show verse)
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.
Isaiah 57:10 (show verse)
but you did not say, “I give up!”
You found a renewal of your strength;
therefore you did not grow weak.
Isaiah 57:11 (show verse)
so that you lied and didn’t remember Me
or take it to heart?
Have I not kept silent for such a long time
and you do not fear Me?
Isaiah 57:12 (show verse)
and your works—they will not profit you.
Isaiah 57:13 (show verse)
let your collection of idols deliver you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a breath will take them away.
But whoever takes refuge in Me
will inherit the land
and possess My holy mountain.
Isaiah 57:14 (show verse)
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”
Isaiah 57:15 (show verse)
who lives forever, whose name is Holy
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.
Isaiah 57:16 (show verse)
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.
Isaiah 57:17 (show verse)
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
Isaiah 57:18 (show verse)
I will lead him and restore comfort
to him and his mourners,
Isaiah 57:19 (show verse)
The Lord says,
“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,
and I will heal him.
Isaiah 57:20 (show verse)
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.
Isaiah 57:21 (show verse)
says my God.