Yasha'Yahu (Isaiah) — 57

1 Good people pass away; the righteous often die before their time, But no one seems to care or wonder why, no one seems to understand that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is protecting them from the evil to come.

2 For those who follow righteous paths will rest in Shalum when they die.

Idolatrous Worship Condemned

3 “But you, come here you children of witches, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

4 Whom do you mock, making faces and sticking out your tongues? You children of sinners and liars!

5 You worship your idols with great passion beneath the oaks and under every green tree, you sacrifice your children down in the valleys, among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.

6 Your idol deities are the smooth stones in the valleys, you worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings, they, not I, are your inheritance, do you think all this makes me happy?

7 You have committed adultery on every high mountain, there you have worshiped idols and have been unfaithful to me.

8 You have put pagan symbols on your doorposts and behind your doors, you have left me and climbed into bed with these detestable idols, you have committed yourselves to them, you love to look at their naked bodies.

9 You have gone to Mulach with olive oil and many perfumes, sending your agents far and wide, even to the world of the dead.

10 You grew weary in your search, but you never gave up, You strengthened yourself and went on.

11 “Are you afraid of these idols? Do they terrify you? Is that why you have lied to me and forgotten me and my Dabar? Is it because of my long silence that you no longer fear me?

12 Now I will expose your so-called good deeds, None of them will help you.

13 Let us see if your idols can save you when you cry to them for help, why a puff of wind can knock them down! If you just breathe on them, they fall over! But whoever trusts in Me will inherit the land and possess my Qadash mountain.”

YAHUAH Forgives the Repentant

14 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “Rebuild the road! Clear away the rocks and stones so my people can return from captivity.”

15 The high and Exalted one who lives in eternity, the Qadash One, says this: “I live in the high and Qadash place with those whose ruach are contrite and humble, I restore the crushed ruach of the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.

16 For I will not fight against you forever; I will not always be angry, If I were, all people would pass away, all the souls I have made.

17 I was angry, so I punished these greedy people, I withdrew from them, but they kept going on their own stubborn way.

18 I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them, I will comfort those who mourn,

19 bringing words of Yadah to their lips, May they have abundant Shalum, both near and far,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH who heals them.

20 “But those who still reject ME are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt.

21 There is no Shalum for the wicked,” says my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.