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Isaiah 57:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

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But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

All the people went back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Makkedah in peace: and no one said a word against the children of Israel.

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;




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