Isaiah 57:13
When you cry out, let your followers free you. But the wind will carry them all away; a breeze will take them up. But he who has faith in me will inherit the earth and will possess my holy mountain.
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In The King James Version
In Context
12I will announce your justice, and your works will not benefit you.
Cross References
2 Kings 3:13Then Elisha said to the king of Israel: “What is there between you and me? Go to the prophets of your father and your mother.” And the king of Israel said to him, “Why has the Lord gathered these three kings, so that he might deliver them into the hands of Moab?”
Psalms 1:4Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.
Psalms 37:9I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
Psalms 37:22Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. Do not depart from me.
Psalms 84:12Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13
A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 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, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou… Read the whole commentary →