| 57:1 | The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. |
| 57:2 | He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. |
| 57:3 | But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. |
| 57:4 | Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, |
| 57:5 | Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
| 57:5 | 你們在橡樹中間、在各青翠樹下慾火攻心．在山谷間、在石穴下殺了兒女。 |
| 57:5 | 你们在橡树中间，在各青翠树下欲火攻心。在山谷间，在石穴下杀了儿女。 |
| 2ki:16:4 | And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| 2ki:17:10 | And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: |
| jer:2:20 | For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. |
| lev:18:21 | And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. |
| lev:20:2 | Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. |
| 2ki:16:3 | But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. |
| jer:7:31 | And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. |
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| 57:6 | Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? |
| 57:7 | Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
| 57:8 | Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. |
| 57:9 | And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. |
| 57:10 | Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. |
| 57:11 | And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? |
| 57:12 | I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. |
| 57:13 | When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; |
| 57:14 | And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
| 57:15 | For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 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. |
| 57:16 | 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. |
| 57:17 | 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. |
| 57:18 | I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
| 57:19 | I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. |
| 57:20 | But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. |
| 57:21 | There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
