Will the righteous flourish?
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He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking
in his uprightness. |
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| 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer
and the whore. |
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| 57:4
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth,
and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of
falsehood. |
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| 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the
children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
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| 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy
lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a
meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? |
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| 57:7
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice. |
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| 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for
thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast
enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed
where thou sawest it. |
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| 57:9
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and
didst increase thy
perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself
even unto hell. |
God hates perfume.
"Thou ... didst increase thy perfumes ... and didst debase thyself even unto hell."
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| 57:10
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There
is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not
grieved. |
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| 57:11
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast
not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even
of old, and thou fearest me not? |
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| 57:12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit
thee. |
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| 57:13
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry
them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me
shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; |
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| 57:14
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
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| 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name
is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones. |
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| 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the
spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. |
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| 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me,
and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. |
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| 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore
comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
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| 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and
to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. |
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| 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. |
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| 57:21
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
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