from calamity.

And they that have walked rightly before them come to peace, and rest in their chambers.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 57
God will punish the rebellious and make peace for the penitent.

And ye, come near, ye children of the day-widower, ye seed of the adulterer and the whore!

In whom will ye now have your pleasure? Over whom will ye now open your mouths, and stick out your tongues? Are ye not the children of transgression, and a false seed?

Ye that run in heat unto idols under every green tree, and slay the children by the rivers under the tops of the rocks?

Thy substance is in the smooth stones of the brook; they are thy portion: thou pourest out thy drink offering unto them, when thou offerest meat offerings. Shall I be comforted in this?

Thou makest thy camp upon a high and lofty mountain, and goest up there also to sacrifice.

And behind the door and the posts thou shalt set thy memorial. For thou rollest away from me, and goest up, and makest thy camp wide, and joinest thyself to them: thou lovest their camp, where thou seest them.

Thou hast burned with oil unto the king, and hast many spices: thou hast sent thy message afar off, and hast been humbled unto hell.

Thou didst labour in the multitude of thy ways, and saidst not, I leave it: but because thou findest life in thine hand, thou art not weary.

Of whom art thou so careful, and so afraid, when thou dealest in lies, and rememberest me not, and takest not to heart? Thinkest thou that I will keep silence all the way, that thou fearest me not at all?

But I will shew thy righteousness, and thy works, that they shall not profit thee.

If thou shalt call, let thy multitudes help thee. But the wind shall carry them all away, And vanity shall take them away. But he that trusteth in me shall inherit the land, And possess my holy mountain.

And he shall say, Make way, make way, clear the way, remove the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

For thus saith he that is high and exalted, which dwelleth for ever, whose name is holy, who dwelleth on high, and in the sanctuary, and with them that are of a contrite and a humble spirit; that I may quicken the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite: 16. I will not always contend, neither will I be wroth for ever: but a spirit shall move from my face, and I will breathe.

I was wroth with the iniquity of their covetousness, and smote them, and hid myself, and was wroth: and they went to and fro in the way of their heart.

But when I saw their ways, I healed them, and guided them, and restored comfort unto them, and to them that mourned over them.

I will make fruit of the lips that preach: Peace, peace, both to them that are afar off, and to them that are nigh, saith the LORD; and I will heal them.

But the wicked are like a turbulent sea, which cannot be still, and the waves thereof cast out mire and filth.

The wicked have not peace, saith my God.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 58
Of fasting and sanctifying the Sabbath.

Shout confidently, spare not! Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sin.

They seek me daily, and desire to know my ways, as a people that have done righteousness, and have not forsaken the judgment of their God. They claim me rightly and want to be right with their God.

Why do we fast, and thou seest it not? Why do we afflict our bodies, and thou wilt not know it? Behold, when ye fast, ye do your will, and cast out all your trespassers.

Behold, ye fast to quarrel, and wrangle, and smite ungodly with your fists. Fast not so as ye do now, that a shout be heard from you on high.

Is this a fast that I should choose, that a man should do evil to his body by day, or hang his head like a reed, or lie on sackcloth and in ashes? Will ye call this fasting, and one day acceptable unto the LORD?

Now this is a fast which I choose: Loose those whom thou hast bound with iniquity; Release those whom thou hast burdened; Release those whom thou hast urged; Take away every burden;

Break thy bread to the hungry, and bring into the house them that are in misery: if thou seest any naked, clothe him, and be not deprived of thy flesh.

Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy correction shall speedily increase, and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the LORD shall take thee.

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer thee: and when thou shalt cry, he shall say, Behold, here am I. If thou wilt not afflict any man with thee, neither wilt thou point fingers, nor speak evil,

And thou shalt let the hungry find thy heart, and satisfy the wretched soul: thy light shall be for darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday;

And the LORD shall guide thee for ever, and satisfy thy soul in the drought, and strengthen thy bones: and thou shalt be as a watered garden, and as a fountain of waters, which never lacketh water.

And by thee shall be built that which was long waste, and thou shalt lay the foundation thereof, which shall remain for ever: and thou shalt be called He that fenceth the gaps, and mendeth the ways, that they may dwell there.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath day, and do not that which is pleasing in thy sight on my holy day, it shall be a merry sabbath to hallow the LORD, and to praise him. For so shalt thou praise him, if thou do not thy ways, nor be found in them that please thee, or that speak thou.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD, and I will cause thee to soar upon the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father: for the mouth
of the LORD saith.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 59
The sins of the Jews are told. Christ will bite.

Behold, the hand of the LORD is not too short, that he cannot help; neither are his ears waxed thick, that he cannot hear,

But your iniquities separate you from your God, and your sins hide the face of you, that ye be not heard.

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak.
Falsehood, your tongue sealeth iniquity.

There is none that preacheth righteousness, or that judgeth faithfully. They trust in vain things, and speak not righteous things: they are pregnant with misfortunes, and bring forth trouble.

they hatch basilisk eggs, and work cobwebs. If one eats of their eggs, one shall die; but if one crushes them, an adder comes out.

Their spider’s web is not fit for garments, neither is their fabric fit for a covering: for their work is toil, and in their hands is wickedness.

Their feet run to evil, and are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are trouble, their way is vain destruction and harm;

They know not the way of peace, neither is there any righteousness in their ways: they are perverse in their paths: he that walketh therein hath no peace.

Therefore is judgment far from us, and we obtain not righteousness. We wait for the light, and, behold, it is dark; for the light, and, behold, we walk in darkness.

We grope after the wall as the blind, and grope as they that have no eyes. We stumble in the midday as in the twilight; we are in the gloom as the dead.

We all growl like bears, and groan like doves: for we wait for judgment, if it be not there; for salvation, if it be far from us.

For our transgression before thee is too much, and our sins answer against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we feel our sins.

By transgressing, and lying against the LORD, and turning back from our God, and speaking iniquity and disobedience, striving, and uttering false words out of the heart.

Therefore also judgment is receded, and righteousness is put afar off: for truth falleth in the street, and righteousness cannot walk,

And the truth is gone; and he that departeth from evil is every man’s spoil. The LORD seeth these things, and is displeased with them, because they are not right.

And he beheld that there was none, and marvelled that no man represented them. Therefore he himself helpeth him with his arm, and his righteousness sustaineth him.

For he putteth on righteousness as an armour, and setteth a helmet of salvation upon his head, and putteth on vengeance, and clotheth himself with zeal as with a garment, 18. As he will repay his adversaries, and pay his enemies with wrath; yea, the isles will he pay, 19. That the name of the LORD may be feared from the going down, and his glory from the rising of the sun, when he shall come as a stopped river, which the wind of the LORD
driveth.

For unto them that are in Zion shall come a deliverer, and unto them that turn from sins in Jacob, saith the LORD.

And I make this covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit which is with thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed and of thy child, saith the LORD, from