Isaiah 57 Cross References - Ottley

¹ See ye, how the righteous hath perished, and no man accepts it in his heart, and righteous men are taken away, and no man considereth; for from the face of wrong hath the righteous been taken away. ² His burial shall be in peace, he is removed out of the midst; ³ But draw ye near hither, sons that are transgressors, ye seed of adulterers and a whore. ⁴ Wherein do ye take delight? and against whom open ye your mouth? and against whom do ye drop out your tongue? are ye not children of perdition, a transgressing seed? ⁵ Ye, that call upon your idols under leafy trees, that slay your children in the valleys amid the rocks! ⁶ That is your portion, this is your lot: and for those thou didst pour out drink-offerings, and to those thou didst bring sacrifices: shall I not then be wroth for this? ⁷ Upon a mountain high and lofty, there was thy couch, and there broughtest thou up sacrifices. ⁸ And behind the posts of thy door didst thou set thy memorials; thou thoughtest, that if thou shouldst revolt from me, thou wouldst gain advantage; thou lovedst them that lay with thee, ⁹ And didst multiply thine adultery with them, and madest many them that were far off from thee, and didst send envoys beyond thy borders, and turnedst away, and wert abased even to hell. ¹⁰ By thy much journeyings thou wert wearied, and saidst not, I will cease; being strong in that thou didst thus; therefore thou besoughtest me not. ¹¹ Of whom wast thou ware, and fearedst; and didst deceive me, and rememberedst me not, neither tookest me into thy thought? and I saw thee, and looked aside, and thou fearedst not me. ¹² And I declare my righteousness, and thy evil deeds; which shall not profit thee. ¹³ When thou criest out, let them deliver thee in thy affliction; for a wind shall take all these, and a tempest shall bear them away. But they that hold fast to me shall possess the earth, and shall inherit my holy mountain, ¹⁴ And they shall say, Cleanse the paths before his face; remove stumbling blocks from the way of my people. ¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the highest among the high, that inhabiteth eternity, Holy among the holy is his name, the Lord, the highest, resting among the holy, and giving patience to the faint hearted, and giving life to them whose hearts are crushed: ¹⁶ And not for ever will I punish you, nor will I alway be angry with you; for a spirit shall go forth from me, and I have made every breath. ¹⁷ For sin I troubled him a little while, and I smote him, and turned my face from him; and he was troubled, and went gloomily in his ways. ¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and I healed him, and comforted him, and gave him true comfort, ¹⁹ Peace upon peace to them that are far off, and them that are near; and the Lord said, I will heal them: ²⁰ But so the unrighteous shall be tossed as waves, and shall not be able to rest. ²¹ There is no rejoicing, saith the Lord God, for the wicked.

²⁵ And he brought upon them the fury of his wrath, and war overpowered them, and they that set them on fire round about, and they understood not, each of them, neither laid it to heart.

⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be a princess for ever; thou perceivedst not this in thy heart, neither didst remember the last things.

¹¹ Of whom wast thou ware, and fearedst; and didst deceive me, and rememberedst me not, neither tookest me into thy thought? and I saw thee, and looked aside, and thou fearedst not me.

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations have lain down to rest in. honour, each one in his own house:

⁷ The way of the godly is become straight; and the way of the godly (is) prepared.

²¹ How is the faithful city Zion become a harlot! (once) full of judgment, and in her righteousness did rest; but now murderers.

²⁰ Be gathered together, and come ye, take counsel together, ye that are being saved from among the nations. They had not learnt, they that lift up the wood, their graving, and pray as to gods that save not.

⁴ Ah, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless sons: ye have forsaken the Lord, and angered the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ Shall an axe be glorified, apart from him that smiteth with it? or shall a saw be uplifted, apart from him that driveth it? as if one should lift a rod or staff, and not thus?

¹ Ah, rebel children, thus saith the Lord: ye took counsel, and not through me, and made agreements, not through my spirit, to add sins upon sins:

⁹ For it is a disobedient people, lying sons, who were not willing to hear the law of God,

²³ Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? or against whom hast thou lift up thy voice? what, hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

²⁹ But thy rage with which thou ragedst, and thy bitterness, have come up toward me, and I will put a muzzle on thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed for their idols, which themselves desired, and shall be ashamed for their gardens, which they longed for.

¹¹ But ye are they that forsook me, and that forget my holy mountain; and prepare a table for the demon, and fill a mingled drink to Fortune.

³ But the transgressor, who sacrificeth to me a bullock, is as one that slayeth a dog, and he that offereth fine flour as though it were swine's blood; he that giveth frankincense for a memorial, as a blasphemer; and they chose their own ways, and their abominations, which their soul desired.

⁹ And a mean man boweth down, and a great man is humbled, and I will not let them be.

¹ Ah, rebel children, thus saith the Lord: ye took counsel, and not through me, and made agreements, not through my spirit, to add sins upon sins: ² They that walk to go down into Egypt, but they asked not me; that they might be helped by Pharaoh, and sheltered by the Egyptians.

² For Pharaoh shall be your shelter to your shame, and to them that trust in Egypt a reproach.

⁴ For there are in Tanis chieftains, evil messengers: ⁵ In vain shall they weary themselves with a people that shall not profit them, neither for help nor for profit, but for shame and reproach. ⁶ The vision of the fourfooted beasts that are in the wilderness. ¶ Amid the affliction and the straitening, a lion, and a lion's whelp: thence also serpents, and the offspring of flying serpents; men who brought their wealth upon asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them [for help, but for shame and reproach].

¹ Ah, they that go down into Egypt for help; that trust in horses and in chariots, for they are many, and in horses, they are a great multitude; and trusted not in the Holy One of Israel, and sought not God. ² And, wise himself, he brought evils upon them; and his word shall not be set at nought; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope, ³ An Egyptian, a man, and not a god: the flesh of horses, and there is no help (in them); but the Lord shall set his hand against them, and they that (come to) help shall weary themselves, and all shall perish together.

¹³ Thou hast grown weary in thy counsels: let the astrologers of the heaven stand and save thee; let them who look on the stars declare to thee what is purposed to come upon thee.

¹⁰ For ceased is the ungodly; he will not learn righteousness upon the earth, he will not perform truth; let the wicked be removed, that he may not see the glory of the Lord.

¹² I am, I am he that comforteth thee; learn of whom thou wast ware, and didst fear before a mortal man, and before a son of man; who were dried up like grass. ¹³ And thou forgottest God that made thee, that made the heaven, and laid the foundations of the earth; and didst fear continually all the days the face of the wrath of him that was afflicting thee, for (it was) as (though) he were minded to remove thee; and now, where is the wrath of him that did afflict thee?

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers in sins; and your lips have spoken transgression, and your tongue doth meditate wrong-doing. ⁴ No man speaketh righteousness, nor is there any true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty words; for they have conceived trouble, and bring forth transgression.

¹¹ What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord: I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and of goats I desire not, ¹² Not even if ye come to appear before me. For who hath demanded this of your hands? ‘Tread my court ¹³ Ye shall not, any more; if ye bring me fine flour, it is vain; incense, it is an abomination to me; your new moons, and the sabbaths, and a great day, I cannot bear: fasting and idleness, ¹⁴ And your new moons, and your feasts, my soul hateth; ye are become to me a surfeit! no longer will I let your sins be. ¹⁵ When ye stretch out your hands toward me, I will turn away mine eyes from you; and if ye multiply your petition, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁵ Ah, they that take counsel deeply, and not through the Lord; ah, they that take counsel in secret, and their works shall be in darkness, and they shall say, Who hath seen us? and who shall find us out, or what we do?

² They will seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways: as a people that hath practised the righteousness of God, and hath not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask of me now righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God, ³ Saying, Why is it that we have fasted, and thou sawest not? humbled our souls, and thou perceivedst not? for in the days of your fast ye find your desires, and vex all those subject unto you. ⁴ Ye fast for quarrels and strife, and smite a humble man with fists; wherefore fast ye before me as to-day, for your voice to be heard in clamour? ⁵ This is not the fast that I choose, and a day for a man to humble his soul; not even if thou bend thy neck like a ring, and spread sackcloth and ashes under thee, not even so shall ye call it an acceptable fast. ⁶ Not such a fast as this do I choose, saith the Lord; but loose every bond of iniquity, unloose the knots of oppressive compacts, send forth the broken in forgiveness and tear asunder every unjust writing:

⁶ Their web shall not be for a garment; nor shall they be clothed with their works; for their works are works of transgression. ⁷ And their feet run after wickedness, swift to shed blood, and their reasonings (are) the reasonings of fools; destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, ⁸ And a way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are perverted, and they know not peace.

⁵ For he will meet them that do righteousness, and they shall remember thy ways. Behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: therefore we strayed,

³ But the transgressor, who sacrificeth to me a bullock, is as one that slayeth a dog, and he that offereth fine flour as though it were swine's blood; he that giveth frankincense for a memorial, as a blasphemer; and they chose their own ways, and their abominations, which their soul desired. ⁴ And I will choose their mockeries, and requite unto them their sins: for I called them, and they hearkened not unto me; I spake, and they heard not: and they did that which was wicked before me, and chose out things which I willed not.

⁹ And they shall not do evil, neither shall they be able to destroy any upon my holy mountain; for the whole (earth) is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covereth seas.

³ Laying hold of righteousness and keeping peace. For in thee ⁴ They have hoped, for ever, O Lord, the great, the everlasting God,

²⁴ For they shall not sow, nor plant, neither shall their root be rooted in the earth; he breatheth upon them, and they are withered, and a tempest shall seize upon them as brushwood.

¹⁶ And thou shalt winnow them, and a wind shall take them, and a tempest shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice among the holy things of Israel.

⁷ I will bring them in to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in the house of my prayer; their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar. For mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations,

⁹ And didst multiply thine adultery with them, and madest many them that were far off from thee, and didst send envoys beyond thy borders, and turnedst away, and wert abased even to hell. ¹⁰ By thy much journeyings thou wert wearied, and saidst not, I will cease; being strong in that thou didst thus; therefore thou besoughtest me not.

⁹ And I will bring forth the seed that cometh from Jacob, and from Judah, and it shall inherit my holy mountain, and my chosen shall inherit it, and my bondmen shall dwell there.

²⁵ Then shall wolves and lambs feed together, and a lion shall eat chaff as an ox, and a serpent shall eat the earth as bread: they shall not do wrong nor hurt upon my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

²⁰ And they shall bring your brethren out of all the nations for a gift to the Lorp, with horses and chariots, in mule-chariots with awnings, into the holy city Jerusalem, saith the Lord, that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices to me with psalms, into the house of the Lord.

⁸ A pure way shall be there, and it shall be called a holy way, and no unclean person shall pass by there, neither shall an unclean way be there; but the dispersed shall walk upon it, and they shall not err.

³ A voice, of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

¹⁰ Go ye through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast away the stones out of the way, lift up a signal to the nations.

¹ And it came to pass, in the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated upon a throne, (that was) high and lifted up, and the house was full of his glory.

³ And they cried one to another and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; all the earth is full of his glory.

²⁸ And now, hast thou not learnt? hast thou not heard? the everlasting God, God who hath framed the ends of the earth, will not hunger, nor grow weary,—nor is there any finding out of his understanding—,

¹³ Behold, my servant shall understand, and shall be exalted, and be glorified exceedingly.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is upon me; wherefore he hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind: ² To call it an acceptable year of the Lord, and a day of requital; to comfort all them that mourn; ³ That there be given to the mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes, the anointing of joy to the mourners, a robe of glory instead of a spirit of despair; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet; what kind of house will ye build for me? or of what kind is the place of my rest? ² For all these things hath my hand made; and all these things are mine, saith the Lord; and unto whom shall I look, save to him that is humble, and quiet, and trembleth at my words?

⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the God who made the heaven and fixed it, who established the earth and the things therein, and gave breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon,

⁸ Woe, they that join house to house, and set field next to field, that they may rob somewhat from their neighbour; will ye dwell alone upon the earth? ⁹ For this was heard in the ears of the Lord of Hosts; For if houses become many, they shall be a desolation; great ones and fair, and there shall be none that inhabit them.

¹⁷ And he shall say, I will wait for God, that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and will have my trust in him.

¹³ And the people turned not back until it was smitten, and they sought not out the Lord.

¹⁵ For thou art God, and we knew it not, O God of Israel, Saviour.

¹¹ And the dogs are insatiate of heart, and know not satisfying; and they are wicked, knowing no wisdom; all follow their own ways, each after the same manner.

¹⁸ And come, and let us be convicted, saith the Lord; and if your sins be as a scarlet thing, I will make them white as snow; and if they be as crimson, I will make them white as wool.

¹ And thou shalt say in that day, I will praise thee, O Lord, because thou wast angry with me, and didst turn away thy wrath, and pitiedst me.

²⁶ And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, in the day when the Lord healeth the breaking of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.

²⁴ Neither didst thou buy for me incense for silver, nor did I desire the fat of thy offerings; but in thy sins and in thine unrighteousness I stood before thee. ²⁵ I am, I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions and will not remember thine unrighteousnesses.

⁸ Thou didst neither perceive nor know, nor did I open thine ears from the beginning; for I perceived that thou wouldest utterly set them at nought, and thou shalt be called a transgressor even from the womb. ⁹ For my name's sake will I show thee my wrath, and my glorious deeds will I bring upon thee, that I may not utterly destroy thee. ¹⁰ Behold, I have sold thee, not for silver; and I delivered thee out of the furnace of beggary. ¹¹ For mine own sake will I do it unto thee; for my name is polluted, and my glory will I not give to another.

¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall burning heat nor sun smite them; but he that hath mercy on them shall comfort them, and lead them through springs of waters:

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the highest among the high, that inhabiteth eternity, Holy among the holy is his name, the Lord, the highest, resting among the holy, and giving patience to the faint hearted, and giving life to them whose hearts are crushed:

¹⁰ Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and keep solemn assembly, all ye that dwell in her; rejoice with joy, all ye that mourn over her. ¹¹ That ye may suck, and be filled from the breast of her consolation; that ye may suck out, and take delight from the entering in of her glory. ¹² For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I do incline toward them like a river of peace, and like a torrent overflowing the glory of nations: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and on the knees shall they be comforted,

⁷ And he touched my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and shall take away thy transgressions, and shall purify thy sins.

¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evil shall befall him according to the works of his hands.

²² There is no rejoicing, saith the Lord, for the wicked.

⁸ And a way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are perverted, and they know not peace.