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    "chapter": 57
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    "n": 57,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-57:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.1",
        "text": "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]."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-57:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.2",
        "text": "He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-57:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.3",
        "text": "But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-57:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.4",
        "text": "Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-57:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.5",
        "text": "ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-57:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.6",
        "text": "Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-57:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.7",
        "text": "Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-57:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.8",
        "text": "And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [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."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-57:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.9",
        "text": "And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-57:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.10",
        "text": "Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-57:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.11",
        "text": "And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-57:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.12",
        "text": "I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-57:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.13",
        "text": "When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-57:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.14",
        "text": "And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-57:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.15",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-57:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.16",
        "text": "For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-57:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.17",
        "text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ISA-57:18",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.18",
        "text": "I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ISA-57:19",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.19",
        "text": "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him that is far off and to him that is near, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ISA-57:20",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.20",
        "text": "But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ISA-57:21",
        "verseRef": "Isa.57.21",
        "text": "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."
      }
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