³ “But come here,
^(D)You sons of the sorceress,
You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
⁴ Whom do you ridicule?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
And stick out the tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
Offspring of falsehood,
⁵ Inflaming yourselves with gods ^(E)under every green tree,
^(F)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
⁶ Among the smooth ^(G)stones of the stream
Is your portion;
They, they, are your lot!
Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I receive comfort in ^(H)these?

⁷ “On^(I) a lofty and high mountain
You have set ^(J)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.
⁸ Also behind the doors and their posts
You have set up your remembrance;
For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
And have gone up to them;
You have enlarged your bed
And ^[b]made a covenant with them;
^(K)You have loved their bed,
Where you saw their ^[c]nudity.
^9 (L)You went to the king with ointment,
And increased your perfumes;
You sent your ^(M)messengers far off,
And even descended to Sheol.
¹⁰ You are wearied in the length of your way;
^(N)Yet you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’
You have found the life of your hand;
Therefore you were not grieved.

¹¹ “And ^(O)of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because ^(P)I have ^[d]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?
¹² I will declare your righteousness
And your works,
For they will not profit you.
¹³ When you cry out,
Let your collection of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry them all away,
A breath will take them.
But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,
And shall inherit My holy mountain.”

¹⁵ For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, ^(R)whose name is Holy:
^(S)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
^(T)With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
^(U)To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
^16 (V)For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would fail before Me,
And the souls ^(W)which I have made.
¹⁷ For the iniquity of ^(X)his covetousness
I was angry and struck him;
^(Y)I hid and was angry,
^(Z)And he went on ^[e]backsliding in the way of his heart.
¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and ^(AA)will heal him;
I will also lead him,
And restore comforts to him
And to ^(AB)his mourners.

¹⁹ “I create ^(AC)the fruit of the lips:
Peace, peace ^(AD)to him who is far off and to him who is near,”
Says the Lord,
“And I will heal him.”
^20 (AE)But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

²¹ “There^(AF) is no peace,”
Says my God, “for the wicked.”

“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And ^[g]exploit all your laborers.
^4 (AJ)Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day,
To make your voice heard on high.
⁵ Is ^(AK)it a fast that I have chosen,
^(AL)A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And ^(AM)to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?

⁶ “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To ^(AN)loose the bonds of wickedness,
^(AO)To undo the ^[h]heavy burdens,
^(AP)To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not ^(AQ)to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are ^[i]cast out;
^(AR)When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from ^(AS)your own flesh?
^8 (AT)Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
^(AU)The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’

“If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The ^[j]pointing of the finger, and ^(AV)speaking wickedness,
¹⁰ If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your ^[k]darkness shall be as the noonday.
¹¹ The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
¹² Those from among you
^(AW)Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of ^[l]Streets to Dwell In.

¹³ “If ^(AX)you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
^14 (AY)Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ^(AZ)ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
^(BA)The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

⁴ No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in ^(BE)empty words and speak lies;
^(BF)They conceive ^[n]evil and bring forth iniquity.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

^6 (BG)Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
^7 (BH)Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed ^(BI)innocent blood;
^(BJ)Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and ^(BK)destruction are in their paths.
⁸ The way of ^(BL)peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
^(BM)They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

²⁰ “The^(CA) Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.