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Isaiah 57 Israel’s Futile Idolatry | Healing for the Backslider

Isaiah 57:1-13 Israel’s Futile Idolatry
Isaiah 57:14-21 Healing for the Backslider

Isaiah 57:1-2
1 The righteous perishes,
And no man takes it to heart;
Merciful men are taken away,
While no one considers
That the righteous is taken away from evil.
2
He shall enter into peace;
They shall rest in their beds,
Each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:11-13
11
“And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because I have [d]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?
12
I will declare your righteousness
And your works,
For they will not profit you.
13
When you cry out,
Let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry them all away,
A breath will take them.
But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,
And shall inherit My holy mountain.”

Isaiah 57:15-18
15
For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16
For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would fail before Me,
And the souls which I have made.
17
For the iniquity of his covetousness
I was angry and struck him;
I hid 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 also lead him,
And restore comforts to him
And to his mourners.

Isaiah 57:19-20
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 him.”
20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Isaiah 57:21
21
“There is no peace,”
Says my God, “for the wicked.”