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## Isaiah 57:1-15 in Context (Verses 1–18 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/1) The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth *it* to heart: and merciful men *are* taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil *to come*.**
 
 [2 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/2) He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, *each one* walking *in* his uprightness.**
 
 [3 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/3) ¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/isaiah/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,
 
 [5 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/5) Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/isaiah/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?
 
 [7 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/7) Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/isaiah/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*.**
 
 [9 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/isaiah/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?
 
 [12 ](/kjv/isaiah/57/12) I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/isaiah/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;
 
 [14 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/isaiah/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.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/isaiah/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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