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# Chapter 57
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1. The righteous perishes,
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And no man takes it to heart;
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Merciful men are taken away,
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While no one considers
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That the righteous is taken away from evil.
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2. He shall enter into peace;
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They shall rest in their beds,
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Each one walking in his uprightness.
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3. "But come here,
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You sons of the sorceress,
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You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
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4. Whom do you ridicule?
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Against whom do you make a wide mouth
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And stick out the tongue?
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Are you not children of transgression,
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Offspring of falsehood,
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5. Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree,
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Slaying the children in the valleys,
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Under the clefts of the rocks?
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6. Among the smooth stones of the stream
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Is your portion;
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They, they, are your lot!
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Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
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You have offered a grain offering.
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Should I receive comfort in these?
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7. "On a lofty and high mountain
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You have set your bed;
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Even there you went up
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To offer sacrifice.
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8. Also behind the doors and their posts
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You have set up your remembrance;
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For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
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And have gone up to them;
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You have enlarged your bed
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And made a covenant with them;
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You have loved their bed,
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Where you saw their nudity.
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9. You went to the king with ointment,
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And increased your perfumes;
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You sent your messengers far off,
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And even descended to Sheol.
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10. You are wearied in the length of your way;
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Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.'
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You have found the life of your hand;
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Therefore you were not grieved.
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11. "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
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That you have lied
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And not remembered Me,
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Nor taken it to your heart?
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Is it not because I have held My peace from of old
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That you do not fear Me?
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12. I will declare your righteousness
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And your works,
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For they will not profit you.
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13. When you cry out,
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Let your collection of idols deliver you.
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But the wind will carry them all away,
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A breath will take them.
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But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,
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And shall inherit My holy mountain."Healing for the Backslider
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14. And one shall say,
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"Heap it up! Heap it up!
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Prepare the way,
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Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."
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15. For thus says the High and Lofty One
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Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
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"I dwell in the high and holy place,
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With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
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To revive the spirit of the humble,
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And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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16. For I will not contend forever,
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Nor will I always be angry;
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For the spirit would fail before Me,
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And the souls which I have made.
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17. For the iniquity of his covetousness
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I was angry and struck him;
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I hid and was angry,
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And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
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18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him;
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I will also lead him,
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And restore comforts to him
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And to his mourners.
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19. "I create the fruit of the lips:
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Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,"
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Says the Lord,
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"And I will heal him."
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20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
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When it cannot rest,
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Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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21. "There is no peace,"
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Says my God, "for the wicked."
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