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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 57

Chapter 873 of 1,075

Canonical reference Isaiah 57

English

World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)

1. The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
2. He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
3. “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
4. Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,
5. you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
6. Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
7. On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
8. You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made a covenant for yourself with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
9. You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
10. You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint.
11. “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
12. I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
13. When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”
14. He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
15. For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also 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 will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
17. I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to 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,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.”
20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
21. “There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”

French

Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)

1. Cependant, le juste disparaît, et personne ne le prend à cœur ; les hommes pieux sont enlevés, et nul ne prend garde que le juste a été retiré du malheur,
2. et qu’il entre dans la paix ! Ils reposent sur leurs couches, ceux qui ont suivi le droit chemin !
3. Mais vous, approchez ici, fils de la magicienne, race de l’adultère et de la prostituée !
4. De qui vous moquez-vous ? Contre qui ouvrez-vous la bouche, et tirez-vous la langue ? N’êtes-vous pas des enfants de prévarication, une race de mensonge ?
5. Vous vous échauffez près des térébinthes, sous tout arbre vert ! vous égorgez les enfants dans les vallées, sous les grottes des rochers ?
6. Ta part est dans les pierres polies du torrent ; voilà, voilà ton lot ! Tu as été jusqu’à leur verser des libations, à leur présenter des offrandes ! Puis-je être satisfait de cela ?
7. Sur une montagne haute et élevée tu as établi ta couche ! Et c’est là que tu montes pour faire des sacrifices.
8. Derrière la porte et les poteaux, tu as mis ton mémorial ; car, loin de moi, tu découvres ta couche, tu y montes, tu élargis ton lit, et tu leur fixes ton salaire ; tu aimes leurs embrassements, tu souilles tes regards !
9. Tu te présentes devant le roi avec de l’huile ; tu multiplies tes parfums ; tu envoies au loin des messagers ; tu t’abaisses jusqu’au schéol.
10. A force de démarches, tu te fatigues ; tu ne dis pas : « C’est en vain ! » tu trouves encore de la vigueur dans ta main ; c’est pourquoi tu ne te sens pas malade.
11. Et qui donc crains-tu ? De qui as-tu peur, que tu me sois infidèle, que tu ne te souviennes plus de moi, que tu ne t’en soucies pas ? Ne me suis-je pas tu, et depuis longtemps, tandis que tu ne me craignais pas ?
12. Moi, je publierai ta justice, et tes œuvres qui ne te servent de rien.
13. Quand tu crieras, qu’ils te délivrent, tes tas de dieux ! Le vent les emportera tous, un souffle les enlèvera ! Mais celui qui se confie en moi héritera le pays, et possédera ma sainte montagne.
14. Et l’on dira : Frayez, frayez la voie ; aplanissez-la ! Enlevez tout obstacle du chemin de mon peuple !
15. Car ainsi parle le Très-Haut, qui habite une demeure éternelle et s’appelle le Saint : J’habite dans un lieu haut et saint, et en même temps avec l’homme contrit et humble d’esprit, pour rendre la vie à l’esprit des humbles, pour rendre la vie aux cœurs contrits.
16. Car je ne veux pas contester à jamais, ni garder un courroux éternel ; car devant moi tomberaient en défaillance l’esprit et les âmes que j’ai faites.
17. A cause de sa convoitise coupable, je me suis irrité, et, demeurant caché, je l’ai frappé dans mon courroux ; et lui, rebelle, suivait la voie de son propre cœur ! …
18. J’ai vu ses voies, et je le guérirai ; Je serai son guide et je lui rendrai mes consolations, à lui et à ses affligés.
19. Celui qui crée sur les lèvres la louange, dit : « Paix, paix, à qui est loin et à qui est près, dit Yahweh, et je le guérirai ! »
20. Mais les méchants sont comme la mer agitée, qui ne peut se calmer, et ses flots roulent de la vase et de la boue.
21. Il n’y a pas de paix, dit mon Dieu, pour les méchants.

Latin

Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)

1. [Justus perit, et non est qui recogitet in corde suo; et viri misericordiæ colliguntur, quia non est qui intelligat: a facie enim malitiæ collectus est justus.
2. Veniat pax; requiescat in cubili suo qui ambulavit in directione sua.
3. Vos autem accedite huc, filii auguratricis, semen adulteri et fornicariæ.
4. Super quem lusistis? super quem dilatastis os, et ejecistis linguam? Numquid non vos filii scelesti, semen mendax,
5. qui consolamini in diis subter omne lignum frondosum, immolantes parvulos in torrentibus, subter eminentes petras?
6. In partibus torrentis pars tua; hæc est sors tua: et ipsis effudisti libamen, obtulisti sacrificium. Numquid super his non indignabor?
7. Super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum, et illuc ascendisti ut immolares hostias.
8. Et post ostium, et retro postem, posuisti memoriale tuum. Quia juxta me discooperuisti, et suscepisti adulterum, dilatasti cubile tuum, et pepigisti cum eis fœdus; dilexisti stratum eorum manu aperta.
9. Et ornasti te regi unguento, et multiplicasti pigmenta tua. Misisti legatos tuos procul, et humiliata es usque ad inferos.
10. In multitudine viæ tuæ laborasti; non dixisti: Quiescam. Vitam manus tuæ invenisti; propterea non rogasti.
11. Pro quo sollicita timuisti, quia mentita es, et mei non es recordata, neque cogitasti in corde tuo? Quia ego tacens et quasi non videns, et mei oblita es.
12. Ego annuntiabo justitiam tuam, et opera tua non proderunt tibi.
13. Cum clamaveris, liberent te congregati tui, et omnes eos auferet ventus, tollet aura.] [Qui autem fiduciam habet mei, hæreditabit terram, et possidebit montem sanctum meum.
14. Et dicam: Viam facite, præbete iter; declinate de semita, auferte offendicula de via populi mei.
15. Quia hæc dicit Excelsus, et Sublimis, habitans æternitatem, et sanctum nomen ejus: in excelso et in sancto habitans, et cum contrito et humili spiritu: ut vivificet spiritum humilium, et vivificet cor contritorum.
16. Non enim in sempiternum litigabo, neque usque ad finem irascar, quia spiritus a facie mea egredietur, et flatus ego faciam.
17. Propter iniquitatem avaritiæ ejus iratus sum, et percussi eum. Abscondi a te faciem meam, et indignatus sum; et abiit vagus in via cordis sui.
18. Vias ejus vidi, et sanavi eum; et reduxi eum, et reddidi consolationes ipsi, et lugentibus ejus.
19. Creavi fructum labiorum pacem; pacem ei qui longe est et qui prope, dixit Dominus, et sanavi eum.
20. Impii autem quasi mare fervens, quod quiescere non potest, et redundant fluctus ejus in conculcationem et lutum.
21. Non est pax impiis, dicit Dominus Deus.]

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Verses in this chapter

  1. Verse 1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken …
  2. Verse 2He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  3. Verse 3“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
  4. Verse 4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspr…
  5. Verse 5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the …
  6. Verse 6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. Yo…
  7. Verse 7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
  8. Verse 8You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone …
  9. Verse 9You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
  10. Verse 10You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; theref…
  11. Verse 11“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peac…
  12. Verse 12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
  13. Verse 13When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but h…
  14. Verse 14He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
  15. Verse 15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also wh…
  16. Verse 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have m…
  17. Verse 17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in…
  18. Verse 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
  19. Verse 19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them…
  20. Verse 20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
  21. Verse 21“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”

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