1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come .[ † ]Psalms 12:11 Kings 14:13 2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.[ † ]2 Chronicles 16:14
3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.[ † ]Isaiah 1:4Matthew 16:4 4Against 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, 5enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?[ † ]2 Kings 16:42 Kings 23:10Psalms 106:37-38Jeremiah 7:31Ezekiel 16:20 6Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?[ † ]Jeremiah 3:9Habakkuk 2:19Jeremiah 5:9-29Jeremiah 9:9 7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.[ † ]Jeremiah 3:6Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 23:41 8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it .[ † ]Ezekiel 16:26 9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.[ † ]Hosea 7:11Ezekiel 23:16-40 10Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.[ † ]Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 18:12
11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?[ † ]Proverbs 29:25Isaiah 51:12-13Psalms 50:21Ecclesiastes 8:11Isaiah 42:14 12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. 13When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14and shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.[ † ]Isaiah 40:3Isaiah 62:10Jeremiah 18:15
15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 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.[ † ]Job 6:10Luke 1:49Psalms 68:35Zechariah 2:13Psalms 34:18Psalms 51:17Isaiah 66:2Psalms 147:3Isaiah 61:1-3 16For 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.[ † ]Psalms 85:5Psalms 103:9Micah 7:18Numbers 16:22Job 34:14Hebrews 12:9 17For 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.[ † ]Isaiah 2:7Isaiah 56:11Jeremiah 6:13Isaiah 8:17Isaiah 45:15Isaiah 59:2Isaiah 9:13 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.[ † ]Jeremiah 3:22Isaiah 61:2 19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord ; and I will heal him.[ † ]Isaiah 6:7Isaiah 51:16Isaiah 59:21Hebrews 13:15Acts 2:39Ephesians 2:17 20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.[ † ]Job 15:20Proverbs 4:16Jude 13 21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.[ † ]Isaiah 48:22