Isaiah 57:14-21 - Peace For The Contrite
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“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”
who lives forever, whose name is Holy
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
I will lead him and restore comfort
to him and his mourners,
The Lord says,
“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,
and I will heal him.
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.
says my God.