The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 56 | (11) Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. | |
| Isaiah | 56 | (12) Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (1) THE 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (2) He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (3) But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (4) Against 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, | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (5) Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (6) Among 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? | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (7) Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (8) Behind 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (9) And 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (10) Thou 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (11) And 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? | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (12) I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (13) When 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; | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (14) And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (15) For 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 | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (16) For 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (17) For 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. | |
| Isaiah | 57 | (18) I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. | |