57:1
iustus perit et nemo est qui recogitet in corde suo et virimisericordiae colliguntur quia non est qui intellegat a facieenim malitiae collectus est iustus

57:2
veniat pax requiescat in cubili suo qui ambulavit indirectione sua

57:3
vos autem accedite huc filii auguratricis semen adulteri etfornicariae

57:4
super quem lusistis super quem dilatastis os et eiecistislinguam numquid non vos filii scelesti semen mendax

57:5
qui consolamini in diis subter omne lignum frondosumimmolantes parvulos in torrentibus subter inminentes petras

57:6
in partibus torrentis pars tua haec est sors tua et ipsiseffudisti libamen obtulisti sacrificium numquid super his nonindignabor

57:7
super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum etilluc ascendisti ut immolares hostias

57:8
et post ostium et retro postem posuisti memoriale tuum quiaiuxta me discoperuisti et suscepisti adulterum dilatasti cubiletuum et pepigisti cum eis dilexisti stratum eorum manu aperta

57:9
et ornasti te regi unguento et multiplicasti pigmenta tuamisisti legatos tuos procul et humiliata es usque ad inferos

57:10
in multitudine viae tuae laborasti non dixisti quiescamvitam manus tuae invenisti propterea non rogasti

57:11
pro quo sollicita timuisti quia mentita es et mei non esrecordata neque cogitasti in corde tuo quia ego tacens et quasinon videns et mei oblita es

57:12
ego adnuntiabo iustitiam tuam et opera tua non proderunttibi

57:13
cum clamaveris liberent te congregati tui et omnes eosauferet ventus tollet aura qui autem fiduciam habet meihereditabit terram et possidebit montem sanctum meum

57:14
et dicam viam facite praebete iter declinate de semitaauferte offendicula de via populi mei

57:15
quia haec dicit Excelsus et Sublimis habitans aeternitatemet sanctum nomen eius in excelso et in sancto habitans et cumcontrito et humili spiritu ut vivificet spiritum humilium etvivificet cor contritorum

57:16
non enim in sempiternum litigabo neque usque ad finemirascar quia spiritus a facie mea egredietur et flatus egofaciam

57:17
propter iniquitatem avaritiae eius iratus sum et percussieum abscondi et indignatus sum et abiit vagus in via cordis sui

57:18
vias eius vidi et dimisi eum et reduxi eum et reddidiconsolationes ipsi et lugentibus eius

57:19
creavi fructum labiorum pacem pacem ei qui longe est etqui prope dixit Dominus et sanavi eum

57:20
impii autem quasi mare fervens quod quiescere non potestet redundant fluctus eius in conculcationem et lutum

57:21
non est pax dixit Deus meus impiis

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057:001
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.

057:002
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

057:003
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

057:004
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.

057:005
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

057:006
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?

057:007
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

057:008
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.

057:009
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.

057:010
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.

057:011
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?

057:012
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

057:013
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;

057:014
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

057:015
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.

057:016
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.

057:017
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.

057:018
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

057:019
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.

057:020
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

057:021
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

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