56
Isaiah

Condemnation of Idolatry and Complacency

Isaiah 56:9-57:13
9All you beasts of the field, come to eat, all you beasts in the forest. 10His watchmen are blind; they all do not know; they are all mute dogs; they cannot bark; they are dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber. 11The dogs are greedy; they do not know satiety. They are shepherds; they do not know how to understand. All of them have turned to their own way, each to his unjust gain, to the last one. 12Come, let us take wine, and let us imbibe strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, very great, exceedingly abundant.
Chapter 57
1The righteous perishes, and no one takes it to heart; and men of kindness are gathered while no one understands, for the righteous is gathered away from the face of distress. 2Peace comes; they rest upon their beds, the one who walks in his straightforward way. 3And you, draw near here, sons of the one who divines, seed of the adulterer and of the one who fornicates. 4Upon whom do you take your delight? Upon whom do you enlarge the lip? Do you lengthen the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, seed of deception? 5Those who warm themselves among the gods under every luxuriant tree, slaughterers of the youth in the torrents under the clefts of the rocks. 6Among the smooth parts of the torrent is your portion; they, they are your allotted portion; also to them you have poured out a drink offering; you have raised an offering; shall I find comfort in these? 7Upon the high and lifted mount you have set your bed; also there you have gone up to offer sacrifice. 8And after the door and the doorpost you have set your memorial, for you have uncovered yourself from with me and gone up; you have enlarged your bed and cut it for yourself from them; you have loved their bed; you have seen a hand. 9And you have traveled to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumery; and you have sent your envoys as far as from a distant place; and you have abased yourself as far as Sheol. 10In the abundance of your ways you have grown weary; you have not said, It is hopeless; the living thing of your hand you have found; therefore you have not become weak. 11And whom have you been anxious for and feared, that you lie, and me you have not remembered nor set upon your heart? Am I not the one who has been silent from of old, and you do not fear me? 12I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, yet they will not profit you. 13When you cry out they will rescue you; your collection and all of them the spirit will carry away; vanity will take them; but the one who takes refuge in me will inherit the land and will possess my holy mountain.
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