{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/57","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T01:35:02.853Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":57,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":56,"nextChapter":58,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up your remembrance: for you have discovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even to hell."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You are wearied in the greatness of your way; yet said you not, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear me not?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the LORD; and I will heal him."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 57 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Isaiah 57](https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/57)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/isaiah/57 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}