Isaiah 57:13
When you cry, let your gatherings deliver you, || And wind carries all of them away, || Vanity takes away, || And whoever is trusting in Me inherits the land, || And possesses My holy mountain.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12I declare your righteousness, and your works, || And they do not profit you.
Cross References
2 Kings 3:13And Elisha says to the king of Israel, “And what do I [have to do] with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother”; and the king of Israel says to him, “No, for YHWH has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked: But [they are] as chaff that wind drives away!
Psalms 37:9For evildoers are cut off, || As for those waiting on YHWH, they possess the land.
Psalms 37:22For His blessed ones possess the land, || And His reviled ones are cut off.
Psalms 37:34Look to YHWH, and keep His way, || And He exalts you to possess the land, || In the wicked being cut off—you see!
Psalms 84:12YHWH of Hosts! O the blessedness of a man trusting in You.
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 →