The Blessed Death of the Righteous
The righteous perish, 2Ki 22:202Ch 34:28Psa 12:1Mic 7:2Isa 42:25Isa 47:71Ki 14:132Ch 35:24
and no one takes it to heart;
devout men are swept away,
while no one considers
that the righteous are guided
from the presence of evil.
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; Rev 14:132Co 5:1Job 3:17Luk 2:292Co 5:8Ecc 12:72Ch 16:14Luk 7:50
they find rest, lying down in death.
God Condemns Idolatry
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, 1Jn 3:10Mat 16:4Hos 1:2Jas 4:4Gen 3:15Isa 1:21Isa 45:20Jhn 8:40-44
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Whom are you mocking? 2Pe 2:13Exo 9:17Isa 1:4Psa 35:21Act 9:4Col 3:6Eph 2:2-3Eph 5:6
At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
offspring of deceit,
who burn with lust among the oaks, 2Ki 16:3-4Ezk 16:20Isa 1:292Ki 23:10Jer 2:20Jer 3:13Jer 7:31Lev 18:21
under every luxuriant tree,
who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; Jer 3:9Jer 7:18Hab 2:19Deu 32:37-38Ezk 20:39Isa 65:11Isa 66:3Jer 19:13
indeed, they are your lot.
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering
and offered a grain offering.
Should I relent because of these?
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, Ezk 16:16Ezk 23:41Jer 2:20Ezk 16:25Ezk 20:28-29Jer 3:6Jer 3:2Ezk 23:17
and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
Behind the door and doorpost Ezk 16:25-28Ezk 16:32Ezk 23:2-20Ezk 23:41Ezk 8:8-12
you have set up your memorial.
Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed;
you climbed up and opened it wide.
And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved;
you have gazed upon their nakedness.
You went to Molech 1with oil Ezk 23:16Col 2:18Ezk 23:40Isa 30:1-6Isa 31:1-32Ki 16:7-11Ezk 16:33Hos 12:1
and multiplied your perfumes.
You have sent your envoys 2a great distance;
you have descended even to Sheol itself.
You are wearied by your many journeys, Jer 2:25Jer 18:12Jer 5:32Ch 28:22-23Ezk 24:12Hab 2:13Isa 47:13Jer 2:36
but you did not say, “There is no hope!”
You found renewal of your strength;
therefore you did not grow weak.
Whom have you dreaded and feared, Isa 51:12-13Pro 29:25Psa 50:21Jer 3:21Ecc 8:11Isa 26:10Isa 30:9Isa 59:3-4
so that you lied and failed
to remember Me or take this to heart?
Is it not because I have long been silent
that you do not fear Me?
I will expose your righteousness and your works, Isa 1:11-15Jer 7:4-11Mat 23:13Mic 3:2-4Rom 3:10-20Isa 29:15Isa 58:2-6Isa 59:6-8
and they will not profit you.
When you cry out, Psa 37:9Psa 37:3Isa 56:7Isa 65:25Ezk 20:40Isa 11:9Isa 65:9Isa 66:20
let your companies of idols deliver you!
Yet the wind will carry off all of them,
a breath will take them away.
But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land
and possess My holy mountain.”
Healing for the Repentant
And it will be said, Isa 62:10Luk 3:5-6Isa 35:8Isa 40:3Jer 18:151Co 8:13Rom 14:13Heb 12:13
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, Psa 34:18Isa 66:1-2Psa 138:6Psa 147:3Exo 15:11Dan 4:34Psa 51:17Isa 40:28
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,
to restore the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the contrite.
For I will not accuse you forever, Mic 7:18Jer 10:24Psa 103:9-16Psa 85:5Heb 12:9Psa 78:38-39Gen 6:3Job 34:14-15
nor will I always be angry;
for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me,
with the breath of those I have made.
I was enraged by his sinful greed, Isa 56:11Col 3:5Jer 6:132Pe 2:14Eph 5:3-51Ti 6:9Ecc 6:9Ezk 33:31
so I struck him and hid My face in anger;
yet he kept turning back
to the desires of his heart.
I have seen his ways, Jer 33:6Rev 7:17Jer 3:22Hos 14:4-8Jer 31:3Ezk 16:60-63Isa 61:1-3Jer 13:17
but I will heal him;
I will guide him and restore comfort
to him and his mourners,
bringing praise to their lips. Act 2:39Heb 13:15Act 10:36Eph 6:19Luk 10:5-6Luk 2:14Luk 21:152Co 5:20-21
Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD,
“and I will heal them.”
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, Isa 3:11Pro 4:16-17Job 18:5-14Job 15:20-24Job 20:11-29Jud 1:12Psa 73:18-20
for it cannot be still,
and its waves churn up mire and muck.
“There is no peace,” says my God, Isa 48:22Isa 3:112Ki 9:22Isa 59:8Rom 3:16-17
“for the wicked.”