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\c 57
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\q1
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\v 1 The righteous perish, but no one considers it,
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\q1 and the people of covenant faithfulness are gathered away, but no one understands
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\q1 that the righteous is gathered away from the evil.
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\q1
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\v 2 He enters into peace;
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\q1 they rest in their beds, those who walk in their uprightness.
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\p
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\q1
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\v 3 But come here, you sons of the sorceress,
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\q1 children of the adulterer and the woman who has prostituted herself.
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\q1
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\v 4 Whom are you merrily mocking?
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\q1 Against whom are you opening the mouth and sticking out the tongue?
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\q1 Are you not children of rebellion, children of deceit?
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\v 5 You heat yourselves up sleeping together under the oaks, under every green tree,
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\q1 you who kill your children in the dry riverbeds, under the rocky overhangs.
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\v 6 Among the smooth things of the river valley are the things that have been assigned to you. They are the object of your devotion.
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\q1 You pour out your drink offering to them and raise up a grain offering. In these things should I take pleasure?
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\v 7 You prepared your bed on a high mountain;
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\q1 you also went up there to offer sacrifices.
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\v 8 Behind the door and the doorposts you set up your symbols;
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\q1 you deserted me, made yourselves naked, and went up; you made your bed wide.
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\q1 You made a covenant with them; you loved their beds; you saw their private parts.
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\v 9 You went to Molech with oil; you multiplied perfumes.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa to Molech \fqb , some versions have \fqa to the king \fqb . \f*
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\q1 You send your ambassadors far away; you went down to Sheol.
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\v 10 You were tired from your long journey, but you never said, "It is hopeless."
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\q1 You found life in your hand; therefore you did not weaken.
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\v 11 "Whom are you worried about? Whom do you fear so much that has caused you to act so deceitfully,
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\q1 so much that you would not remember me or think about me?
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\q1 Because I was silent for so long, you are no longer afraid of me.
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\v 12 I will proclaim all your righteous acts and tell all that you have done,
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\q1 but they will not help you.
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\v 13 When you cry out, let your collection of idols rescue you.
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\q1 Instead the wind will carry them all away, a breath will carry them all away.
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\q1 Yet he who takes refuge in me will inherit the land and will take possession of my holy mountain.
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\p
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\v 14 He will say,
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\q1 'Build, build! Clear a way! Remove all the stumbling blocks from the path of my people!'"
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\v 15 For this is what the high and elevated One says, who lives eternally, whose name is holy,
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\q1 "I live in the exalted and holy place,
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with him also that is of a crushed and humble spirit,
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\q1 to revive the spirit of the humble ones, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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\v 16 For I will not accuse forever, nor will I be angry forever,
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\q1 for then man's spirit would faint before me, the lives that I have made.
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\v 17 Because of the sin of his violent gain, I was angry, and I punished him; I hid my face and was angry,
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\q1 but he went backward in the way of his heart.
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\v 18 I have seen his ways,
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\q1 but I will heal him. I will lead him and comfort and console those who mourn for him,
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\v 19 and I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to those who are far off and to those who are near—says Yahweh—I will heal them.
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\v 20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest,
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\q1 and its waters churn up mire and mud.
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\v 21 There is no peace for the wicked one—says God."
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