Isaiah Chapter 57

Blessed death of the righteous

57:1The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come.
57:2 He shall enter into peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, prosperity For more info click here: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Idolatry criticized

57:3 But come close, ya’ll sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore.
57:4 Against whom do ya’ll delight yourselves? against whom ya’ll smile, and stick out the tongue? aren’t ya’ll children of transgression, a offspring of falsehood.
57:5 Warming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
57:6 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?
57:7 On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even there went you up to offer sacrifice.
57:8 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.
57:9 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 Sheolשְׁאוֹל‎
Transliteration: šᵊ’ôl Pronunciation: sheh-ole’ underworld, grave, hell, pit For more info click here.
57:10 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; So you weren’t grieved.
57:11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and haven’t remembered me, or laid it to your heart? haven’t I held my peaceמַחְשֶׁה‎
Pronunciation:maḥšê shalom – have held my completeness, have held my soundness, have held my welfare, have held my peace, have held my well being, have held my prosperity For more info click here even of old, and you don’t fear me?
57:12 I will declare your righteousnessצִדְקָתֵךְ‎
Pronunciation: ṣiḏqāṯēḵ For more info click here, and your deeds; because they will not profit you.
57:13 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 My Holy mountainהַר־קָדְשִׁי‎
Pronunciation:har-qāḏšî har=hill, mountain, hill country, mount qāḏšî -a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:—consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. For more info click here;
57:14 And shall say, Cast ya’ll up, cast ya’ll up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.
57:15 Because so says the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity, whose Name [is] Holy וְקָדוֹשׁ‎
Pronunciation:vᵊqāḏôš sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spiritרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here, to revive the spiritרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
57:16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry: for the spiritרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him: I hid me, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, prosperity For more info click here, peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, prosperity For more info click here to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; and I will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can’t rest, whose waters toss up mud and dirt.
57:21 There is no peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, prosperity For more info click here, says Elohimאלֹהֵי
Pronounced:’ĕlōhê In Hebrew grammatical construct is a way of connecting noun-noun pairs. In english, we use “of”, but in Hebrew there are quite a few ways of doing this. של is usually used in place of “of” in Hebrew, but in this case, we modify the first word, with the suffix “ey” (which is what we do for plural words, which God’s name is in Torah), i.e. God of Abraham becomes Elohei Avraham. also can be of my – See Elohim for more info click here, to the wicked.