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Isaiah 57:4

New English Translation

At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars,

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But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.

They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

They are ready to devour me; they say, “Aha! Aha! We’ve got you!”

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.

The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the Lord, “those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.

Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!

Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out, “Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the Lord has made me an object of continual insults and derision.

The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’

O Israel, you have sinned since the time of Gibeah, and there you have remained. Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.




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