1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. Compare verse5 commentaries
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Compare verse5 commentaries
3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood. Compare verse4 commentaries
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? Compare verse3 commentaries
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? Compare verse2 commentaries
7 On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice. Compare verse2 commentaries
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. Compare verse4 commentaries
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 hell. Compare verse4 commentaries
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; therefore you were not grieved. Compare verse3 commentaries
11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear me not? Compare verse3 commentaries
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you. Compare verse2 commentaries
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 holy mountain; Compare verse3 commentaries
14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people. Compare verse3 commentaries
15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits 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. Compare verse5 commentaries
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. Compare verse5 commentaries
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. Compare verse3 commentaries
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. Compare verse5 commentaries
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the LORD; and I will heal him. Compare verse8 commentaries
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Compare verse3 commentaries