Isaiah 57 — Novel English Bible

1 The tzadayaq (righteous) perishes, and no ayash (man / husband) shawam (place / establish / appoint) it to lab (heart); and chasad (grace) anashay (men) are asap (taken) away, none bayan (between) that the tzadayaq (righteous) is asap (taken) away from the rai (evil).

2 He bawaa (bring) into shalawam (peace / safety); they nawach (rest) in their mashakab (beds), each one who halak (move) in his nakach (uprightness).

3 “But qarab (come close) near here, you banay (my son) of the sorceress, the zarai (seed) of the naap (adulterer) and the prostitute.

4 Against whom do you inag (sport) yourselves? Against whom do you rachab (make) a wide pah (mouth), and stick out your lashawan (tongue / language)? Aren't you yaladay (children) of disobedience, a zarai (seed) of falsehood,

5 You who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every rainan (green) itz (tree); who shachat (kill) the yaladayam (children) in the nachalayam (valleys), under the clefts of the salaiyam (rocks)?

6 Among the chalaq (smooth) stones of the nachal (stream / river) is your chalaq (portion); they, they are your gawaral (lot); you have even shapak (poured) a drink nasak (offering) to them. You have ilah (go up / offer) an manachah (offering). Shall I be appeased for these things?

7 On a nashaa (lift) and gabah (lofty) har (mountain) you have shawam (place / establish / appoint) your mashakab (bed); there also you ilah (go up / offer) up to zabach (offer) zabach (sacrifice).

8 Achar (other) the dalath (doors) and the mazawazah (posts) you have shawam (place / establish / appoint) up your zakarawan (memorial): for you have galah (uncovered) to someone besides me, and have ilah (go up / offer) up; you have enlarged your mashakab (bed), and karath (cut) you a covenant with them: you ahab (love) their mashakab (bed) yad (hand) you chazah (saw) it.

9 You shawar (went) to the malak (king) with shaman (oil), and rabah (increased) your raqach (perfumes), and shalach (send) your tzayar (ambassadors) rachawaq (far) off, and shapal (debased) yourself even to shaawal (Sheol / afterlife).

10 You were yagai (wearied) with the length of your darak (way); yet you didn't amar (said), ‘It is in vain.’ You matzaa (found) a reviving of your yad (hand); therefore you weren't faint.

11 “Of whom have you been daag (afraid) and in yaraa (fear / be afraid), that you kazab (lie), and have not zakar (remember) me, nor shawam (place / establish / appoint) it to your lab (heart)? Haven't I held my chashah (peace) even of iwalam (eternity) time, and you don't yaraa (fear / be afraid) me?

12 I will nagad (declare) your tzadaqah (righteousness); and as for your maishah (works), they shall not yail (profit) you.

13 When you zaiq (cry), let those whom you have qawah (gathered) natzal (deliver) you; but the rawach (wind / spirit) will nashaa (take) them. a rawach (breath) will carry them all away: but he who laqach (takes) chasah (refuge) in me will yarash (possess) the aratz (land), and will nachal (inherit) my qadash (holy) har (mountain).”

14 He will amar (said), “salal (cast) up, salal (cast) up, panah (turn) the darak (way), rawam (will lift up) up the makashawal (stumbling-block) out of the darak (way) of my im (nation / people).”

15 For thus amar (said) the rawam (will lift up) and nashaa (lift) One who shakan (place) id (until / as far as), whose sham (name) is qadawash (holy): “I shakan (place) in the marawam (high) and qadawash (holy) place, with him also who is of a dakaa (contrite) and shapal (humble) rawach (spirit / wind), to chayah (revive) the rawach (spirit / wind) of the shapal (humble), and to chayah (revive) the lab (heart) of the dakaa (contrite).

16 For I will not rayab (contend) iwalam (eternity), neither will I be natzach (always) qatzap (angry); for the rawach (spirit / wind) would itap (faint) panayam (face) me, and the nashamawath (souls) who I ishah (make) made.

17 For the iwan (guilt/iniquity) of his batzai (covetousness) was I qatzap (angry), and nakah (struck) him; I sathar (hid) myself and was qatzap (angry); and he yalak (went) on shawabab (backsliding) in the darak (way) of his lab (heart).

18 I raah (see / saw) seen his darak (ways), and will rapaa (heal) him: I will nachah (lead) him also, and shalam (restore) nachamayam (comforts) to him and to his mourners.

19 I baraa (created) the nawab (fruit) of the shapathayam (lips): shalawam (peace / safety), shalawam (peace / safety), to him who is rachawaq (far) off and to him who is qarawab (near),” amar (spoke) Yahawah (); “and I will rapaa (heal) them.”

20 But the rashai (wicked) are like the garash (troubled) yam (sea/waters); for it can't shaqat (rest), and its mayam (Waters) garash (cast) up rapash (mire) and tayat (dirt).

21 “There is no shalawam (peace / safety)”, amar (spoke) my Alahayam (), “for the rashai (wicked).”