Isaiah 57

and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

each one who walks in his uprightness.

you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

and offspring of falsehood,

under the clefts of the rocks?

Shall I be appeased for these things?

You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

You loved what you saw on their bed.

and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

therefore you weren’t faint.

and you don’t fear me?

and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

and will inherit my holy mountain.”

Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

and to revive the heart of the contrite.

and the souls whom I have made.

and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

“for the wicked.”