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Isaiah Chapter 57

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Isaiah

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In this chapter the people of Judah are warned that their idolatry and disobedience will bring disaster, and God will not give them a blessing until they turn away from evil. The king is called to repent and the temple is described as a place of false worship, showing the nation's spiritual emptiness. The chapter ends with a promise that God will restore the land when the people obey Him.

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(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.
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II Chronicles 32:33II Chronicles 35:24Isaiah 57:11Isaiah 42:25Isaiah 47:7Malachi 2:2Psalms 12:1Micah 7:2I Kings 14:13II Kings 22:20II Chronicles 34:28

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Matthew 10:41Genesis 18:24Genesis 18:25Judges 5:11Psalms 125:3Ezekiel 3:21

(2) He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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Job 3:17Ecclesiastes 12:7Matthew 25:21Luke 16:22II Corinthians 5:1II Corinthians 5:8Philippians 1:23Revelation 14:13Luke 2:29Luke 7:50Isaiah 14:18II Chronicles 16:14

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Hebrews 4:3

(3) But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
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Isaiah 45:20Joel 3:9Joel 3:10Joel 3:11Genesis 3:15Hosea 1:2Matthew 3:7Matthew 12:34Matthew 16:4Matthew 23:33Luke 3:7John 8:40

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26I Samuel 14:36I Samuel 14:38

(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,
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Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 37:23Isaiah 37:29Exodus 9:17Exodus 16:7Exodus 16:8Numbers 16:11Luke 10:16Acts 9:4Judges 16:25Judges 16:26Judges 16:27

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Isaiah 8:9

(5) Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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Exodus 32:6Numbers 25:1Numbers 25:2Numbers 25:6Jeremiah 50:38Jeremiah 51:7Hosea 4:11Hosea 4:12Hosea 4:13Hosea 7:4Hosea 7:5Hosea 7:6

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Ezekiel 17:24Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 6:13Joel 1:12Genesis 2:9Ezekiel 20:47

(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?
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Jeremiah 3:9Habakkuk 2:19Isaiah 65:11Deuteronomy 32:37Deuteronomy 32:38Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 19:13Jeremiah 32:29Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19Jeremiah 44:20

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 8:64I Kings 7:10II Kings 16:15II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:7

(7) Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
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Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 3:2Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 20:28Ezekiel 20:29Ezekiel 23:17Ezekiel 23:41

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Malachi 1:8Exodus 23:18Exodus 34:25Leviticus 1:3Leviticus 3:1Leviticus 7:12

(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.
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Ezekiel 8:8Ezekiel 8:9Ezekiel 8:10Ezekiel 8:11Ezekiel 8:12Ezekiel 23:14Ezekiel 23:41Ezekiel 16:32Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 16:26Ezekiel 16:27Ezekiel 16:28

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Leviticus 15:26Psalms 41:3Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3

(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.
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Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Isaiah 30:4Isaiah 30:5Isaiah 30:6Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:2Isaiah 31:3II Kings 16:7II Kings 16:8II Kings 16:9

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I Samuel 15:19II Chronicles 2:3Psalms 68:9Genesis 31:27Deuteronomy 33:8II Samuel 12:21

(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.
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Isaiah 47:13Jeremiah 2:36Jeremiah 9:5Ezekiel 24:12Habakkuk 2:13II Chronicles 28:22II Chronicles 28:23Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Romans 7:9Jeremiah 3:3

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Romans 8:24Ezekiel 16:4I Corinthians 9:10

(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?
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Isaiah 51:12Isaiah 51:13Proverbs 29:25Matthew 26:69Matthew 26:70Matthew 26:71Matthew 26:72Matthew 26:73Matthew 26:74Matthew 26:75Galatians 2:12Galatians 2:13

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(12) I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
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Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 58:2Isaiah 58:3Isaiah 58:4Isaiah 58:5Isaiah 58:6Isaiah 59:6Isaiah 59:7

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Romans 9:30Romans 10:3Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

(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;
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Isaiah 57:9Isaiah 57:10Judges 10:14II Kings 3:13Jeremiah 22:22Zechariah 7:13Isaiah 40:24Isaiah 41:16Job 21:18Psalms 1:4Psalms 58:9Hosea 13:3

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I Kings 19:11Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19Psalms 37:40Isaiah 46:4II Corinthians 1:10

(14) And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
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Isaiah 35:8Isaiah 40:3Isaiah 62:10Luke 3:5Luke 3:6Romans 14:13I Corinthians 1:23I Corinthians 8:9I Corinthians 8:13I Corinthians 10:32I Corinthians 10:33II Corinthians 6:3

(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 ones.
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Isaiah 6:1Psalms 83:18Psalms 97:9Psalms 138:6Daniel 4:17Daniel 4:24Daniel 4:25Daniel 4:34Isaiah 40:28Genesis 21:33Deuteronomy 33:27Psalms 90:2

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19

(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.
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Psalms 78:38Psalms 78:39Psalms 85:5Psalms 103:9Psalms 103:10Psalms 103:11Psalms 103:12Psalms 103:13Psalms 103:14Psalms 103:15Psalms 103:16Jeremiah 10:24

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Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20

(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.
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Isaiah 5:8Isaiah 5:9Isaiah 56:11Jeremiah 6:13Jeremiah 8:10Jeremiah 22:17Ezekiel 33:31Micah 2:2Micah 2:3Luke 12:15Ephesians 5:3Ephesians 5:4

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II Chronicles 26:19Psalms 32:5Jeremiah 16:17Isaiah 64:9Jeremiah 37:15

(18) I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
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Isaiah 1:18Isaiah 43:24Isaiah 43:25Isaiah 48:8Isaiah 48:9Isaiah 48:10Isaiah 48:11Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Ezekiel 16:60Ezekiel 16:61

(19) I 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.
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Exodus 4:11Exodus 4:12Hosea 14:2Luke 21:15Ephesians 6:19Colossians 4:3Colossians 4:4Hebrews 13:15Matthew 10:13Mark 16:15Luke 2:14Luke 10:5

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Jeremiah 12:2Ezekiel 47:12Matthew 12:33

(20) But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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Isaiah 3:11Job 15:20Job 15:21Job 15:22Job 15:23Job 15:24Job 18:5Job 18:6Job 18:7Job 18:8Job 18:9Job 18:10

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Joshua 3:13Genesis 1:6Psalms 77:16Ezekiel 47:4I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19

(21) There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
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Isaiah 3:11Isaiah 48:22II Kings 9:22Romans 3:16Romans 3:17

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