A Message from the high and towering God. The right-living people are out of their misery, they're finally at … Do you have any idea what wretches you’ve turned out to be? A race of rebels, a generation of liars.You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade and fornicate at whim.You kill your children at any convenient spot— any cave or crevasse will do.You take stones from the creek and set up your sex-and-religion shrines.You’ve chosen your fate. You can have no stronger word. Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed. You send scouts to search out the latest in religion. Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand,” says, There’s no peace,” God says, “for the wicked.”, The Message Deluxe Gift Bible--soft leather-look, amethyst gem, The Message // REMIX 2.0--soft leather-look, zebra print, The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible (NKJV/ESV/NLT/. Isaiah 57:15-21 I. When I looked again and saw what he was doing. When I looked again and saw what he was doing. I struck him hard and turned away in anger. It means literally a heart crushed, a heart ground to powder. The right-living people are out of their misery. I struck him hard and turned away in anger, while he kept at his stubborn, willful ways.When I looked again and saw what he was doing, I decided to heal him, lead him, and comfort him, creating a new language of praise for the mourners.Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand,” says God— “and yes, I will heal them.But the wicked are storm-battered seas that can’t quiet down. 16 For I'm not going to haul people into court endlessly, I'm not going to be angry forever. So if a message is not to pattern, we think we are right in rejecting it. and set up your sex-and-religion shrines. “But you, children of a witch, come here! Isaiah chapter 57 New International Version 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. 16 For I'm not going to haul people into court endlessly, I'm not going to be angry forever. 15 A Message from the high and towering God, who lives in Eternity, whose name is Holy: "I live in the high and holy places, but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed, And what I do is put new spirit in them, get them up and on their feet again. you assemble your precious gods and goddesses. God-fearing people are carted off and no one even notices. “Who talked you into the pursuit of this nonsense. Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: Someone says: “Build, build! The Contemporary Parallel New Testament with KJV, NIV, NKJV, NASB, and more! 16 For I'm not going to haul people into court endlessly, I'm not going to be angry forever. Isaiah 57:20-21 is a good example of how the sea was thought to be a dangerous, dark, restless place in the mind of the ancient Jews. You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade, You kill your children at any convenient spot—. You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different. The personal peculiarities of a messenger may touch the humorous faculty, and so close men's minds and hearts against the reception of the message. The waves stir up garbage and mud.There’s no peace,” God says, “for the wicked.”, Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (MSG). This is the verse I'm thinking about. You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different. Isaiah 57:1: Meanwhile, right-living people die and no one gives them a thought. Never Tired of Trying New Religions 1-2Meanwhile, right-living people die and no one gives them a thought. A heart like Isaiah's, when he said, after having seen God's glory, "Woe is me! 57:3-13) Judah and Jerusalem are polluted with idols in the days leading up to the Babylonian captivity. You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade, You kill your children at any convenient spot—. I decided to heal him, lead him, and comfort him. creating a new language of praise for the mourners. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; 2 s he enters into peace; they rest t in their beds. Your worship will be your doom.You’ve climbed a high mountain to practice your foul sex-and-death religion.Behind closed doors you assemble your precious gods and goddesses.Deserting me, you’ve gone all out, stripped down and made your bed your place of worship.You’ve climbed into bed with the ‘sacred’ whores and loved every minute of it, adoring every curve of their naked bodies.You anoint your king-god with ointments and lavish perfumes on yourselves.You send scouts to search out the latest in religion, send them all the way to hell and back.You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different, and never see what a waste it all is.You’ve always found strength for the latest fad, never got tired of trying new religions.