AGAINST WHOM DO YE SPORT YOURSELVES

 ISAIAH 57:1-12

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. 

HE SHALL ENTER INTO PEACE: 

THEY SHALL REST IN THEIR BEDS, 

EACH ONE WALKING IN HIS 

UPRIGHTNESS. 

BUT 

DRAW NEAR HITHER, 

YE SONS OF THE SORCERESS, 

THE SEED OF THE ADULTERER 

AND 

THE WHORE. 

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. 

ENFLAMING YOURSELVES 

WITH IDOLS UNDER EVERY 

GREEN TREE, 

SLAYING THE CHILDREN 

IN THE VALLEYS UNDER 

THE CLIFTS OF THE ROCKS? 

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? 

UPON A LOFTY 

AND 

HIGH MOUNTAIN 

HAST THOU SET THY BED: 

EVEN THITHER WENTEST 

THOU UP TO OFFER SACRIFICE. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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? 

I WILL DECLARE THY RIGHTEOUSNESS,

AND THY WORKS; FOR THEY 

SHALL NOT PROFIT THEE. 

 

 

LOVE