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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” |
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