| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | King James Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Against 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Among 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Behind 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Thou 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
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