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            <div class="label">57</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="it"><span class="heading">Evil Leaders Rebuked</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The righteous man perishes [at the hand of evil], and no one takes it to heart;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">Faithful </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> devout men are taken away, while no one understands</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">That the righteous person is taken away [to be spared] from disaster </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> evil.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He enters into peace [through death];</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">They rest in their beds (graves),</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Each one</span></span><span class="content"> who walked uprightly [following God&#8217;s will, living with integrity].</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition],</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Of whom do you make fun?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Against whom do you open wide your mouth</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">And stick out your tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Are you not children of rebellion (sin),</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Offspring of deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees),</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">Under every green </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> leafy tree,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">Under the clefts of the rocks?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Among the smooth </span><span class="it"><span class="content">stones</span></span><span class="content"> of the ravine</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">You have offered a grain offering.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished&#8212;bearing them with patience]?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Upon a high and lofty mountain</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Behind the door and the doorpost</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">You have set up your [pagan] symbol;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">And have gone up and made your bed wide.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">You have loved their bed,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">You have looked [with passion] on their </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:8 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">hand</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">manhood. [Deut 6:5, 6, 9; 11:18, 20]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;You have gone to </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Another reading is <span class="it">Molech,</span> i.e. to an idol of the pagan god.</span></span></span><span class="content">the king [of a pagan land] with oil</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">And increased your </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">ointments</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">perfumes;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">You have sent your messengers a great distance</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">And made </span><span class="it"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;You were wearied by the length of your road,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> you did not say, &#8216;It is no use.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">You found </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:10 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">the life of your hand</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">renewed strength,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">Therefore you did not grow weak.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#182;&#8220;About whom were you worried and fearful</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">That you lied and did not </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:11 </span><span class="ft">Or <span class="it">mention</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">remember Me,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">Nor </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:11 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">put on your heart</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">give Me a thought?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">Was I not silent even for a long time</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">And [as a result] you do not fear Me?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">But they will not benefit you.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you cry out [for help], let your [ridiculous] collection </span><span class="it"><span class="content">of idols</span></span><span class="content"> save you.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">But the wind will carry them all away,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">A [mere] breath will take them.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">But he who takes refuge in Me will possess the land [Judea]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">And will inherit My holy mountain.&#8221; [Ps 37:9, 11; 69:35, 36; Is 49:8; Matt 5:5; Heb 12:22]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#182;And it will be said,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Build up, build up, clear the way.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">Remove the stumbling block out of the way [of the spiritual return] of My people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For the high and exalted One</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">He who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy says this,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I dwell on the high and holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">But </span><span class="it"><span class="content">also</span></span><span class="content"> with the </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:15 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">crushed</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">contrite and humble in spirit</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">In order to revive the spirit of the humble</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">And to revive the heart of the contrite [overcome with sorrow for sin]. [Matt 5:3]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;For I will not contend forever,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">Nor will I always be angry;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">And the breath </span><span class="it"><span class="content">of those whom</span></span><span class="content"> I have created.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because of the wickedness of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">I hid </span><span class="it"><span class="content">My face</span></span><span class="content"> and was angry,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">And he went on turning away </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> backsliding, in the way of his [own willful] heart.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have seen his [willful] ways, but I will heal him;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">I will lead him [also] and will restore comfort to him and to those who mourn for him, [Is 61:1, 2; 66:10]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As I create the </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:19 </span><span class="ft">Lit <span class="it">fruit</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content">praise of his lips,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Peace, peace, to him who is far away [both Jew and Gentile] and to him who is near!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Says the L</span><span class="sc"><span class="content">ord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">&#8220;And I will heal him [making his lips blossom anew with thankful praise].&#8221; [Acts 2:39; Eph 2:13-17, 18; Heb 13:15]</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the wicked are like the tossing sea,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">For it cannot be quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">And its waters toss up mire and mud.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.57.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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The righteous man perishes [at the hand of evil], and no one takes it to heart;
Faithful and devout men are taken away, while no one understands
That the righteous person is taken away [to be spared] from disaster and evil.
He enters into peace [through death];
They rest in their beds (graves),
Each one who walked uprightly [following God’s will, living with integrity].
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition],
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.
“Of whom do you make fun?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion (sin),
Offspring of deceit,
Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees),
Under every green and leafy tree,
Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines
Under the clefts of the rocks?
“Among the smooth stones of the ravine
Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?
“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;
Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
“Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your [pagan] symbol;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers,
You have loved their bed,
You have looked [with passion] on their manhood. [Deut 6:5, 6, 9; 11:18, 20]
“You have gone to the king [of a pagan land] with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your messengers a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).
“You were wearied by the length of your road,
Yet you did not say, ‘It is no use.’
You found renewed strength,
Therefore you did not grow weak.
¶“About whom were you worried and fearful
That you lied and did not remember Me,
Nor give Me a thought?
Was I not silent even for a long time
And [as a result] you do not fear Me?
“I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not benefit you.
“When you cry out [for help], let your [ridiculous] collection of idols save you.
But the wind will carry them all away,
A [mere] breath will take them.
But he who takes refuge in Me will possess the land [Judea]
And will inherit My holy mountain.” [Ps 37:9, 11; 69:35, 36; Is 49:8; Matt 5:5; Heb 12:22]
¶And it will be said,
“Build up, build up, clear the way.
Remove the stumbling block out of the way [of the spiritual return] of My people.”
For the high and exalted One
He who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy says this,
“I dwell on the high and holy place,
But also with the contrite and humble in spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the humble
And to revive the heart of the contrite [overcome with sorrow for sin]. [Matt 5:3]
“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.
“Because of the wickedness of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid My face and was angry,
And he went on turning away and backsliding, in the way of his [own willful] heart.
“I have seen his [willful] ways, but I will heal him;
I will lead him [also] and will restore comfort to him and to those who mourn for him, [Is 61:1, 2; 66:10]
As I create the praise of his lips,
Peace, peace, to him who is far away [both Jew and Gentile] and to him who is near!”
Says the LORD;
“And I will heal him [making his lips blossom anew with thankful praise].” [Acts 2:39; Eph 2:13-17, 18; Heb 13:15]
But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up mire and mud.
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Luisteren Isaiah 57