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Shall I not be angry at these things?", "citation": "Isaias 57:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.", "citation": "Isaias 57:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.", "citation": "Isaias 57:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.", "citation": "Isaias 57:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou has found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked.", "citation": "Isaias 57:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart? for I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me.", "citation": "Isaias 57:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.", "citation": "Isaias 57:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount.", "citation": "Isaias 57:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.", "citation": "Isaias 57:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.", "citation": "Isaias 57:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.", "citation": "Isaias 57:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart.", "citation": "Isaias 57:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.", "citation": "Isaias 57:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.", "citation": "Isaias 57:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.", "citation": "Isaias 57:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.", "citation": "Isaias 57:21 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }