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1의인이 죽을지라도 마음에 두는 자가 없고 자비한 자들이 취하여감을 입을지라도 그 의인은 화액 전에 취하여 감을 입은 것인 줄로 깨닫는 자가 없도다 2그는 평안에 들어갔나니 무릇 정로로 행하는 자는 자기들의 침상에서 편히 쉬느니라 3무녀의 자식, 간음자와 음녀의 씨 너희는 가까이 오라 4너희가 누구를 희롱하느냐 누구를 향하여 입을 크게 벌리며 혀를 내미느냐 너희는 패역의 자식, 궤휼의 종류가 아니냐 5너희가 상수리나무 사이, 모든 푸른 나무 아래서 음욕을 피우며 골짜기 가운데 바위 틈에서 자녀를 죽이는도다 6골짜기 가운데 매끄러운 돌 중에 너희 소득이 있으니 그것이 곧 너희가 제비 뽑아 얻은 것이라 너희가 전제와 예물을 그것들에게 드리니 내가 어찌 이를 용인하겠느냐 7네가 높고 높은 산 위에 침상을 베풀었고 네가 또 그리로 올라가서 제사를 드렸으며 8네가 또 네 기념표를 문과 문설주 뒤에 두었으며 네가 나를 배반하고 다른 자를 위하여 몸을 드러내고 올라가며 네 침상을 넓히고 그들과 언약하며 또 그들의 침상을 사랑하여 그 처소를 예비하였으며 9네가 기름을 가지고 몰렉에게 나아가되 향품을 더욱 더하였으며 네가 또 사신을 원방에 보내고 음부까지 스스로 낮추었으며 10네가 길이 멀어서 피곤할지라도 헛되다 아니함은 네 힘이 소성되었으므로 쇠약하여 가지 아니함이니라 11네가 누구를 두려워하며 누구로하여 놀랐기에 거짓을 말하며 나를 생각지 아니하며 이를 마음에 두지 아니하였느냐 네가 나를 경외치 아니함은 내가 오래동안 잠잠함을 인함이 아니냐 12너의 의를 내가 보이리라 너의 소위가 네게 무익하니라 13네가 부르짖을 때에 네가 모은 우상으로 너를 구원하게 하라 그것은 다 바람에 떠 가겠고 기운에 불려갈 것이로되 나를 의뢰하는 자는 땅을 차지하겠고 나의 거룩한 산을 기업으로 얻으리라 14장차 말하기를 돋우고 돋우어 길을 수축하여 내 백성의 길에서 거치는 것을 제하여 버리라 하리라 15지존무상하며 영원히 거하며 거룩하다 이름하는 자가 이같이 말씀하시되 내가 높고 거룩한 곳에 거하며 또한 통회하고 마음이 겸손한 자와 함께 거하나니 이는 겸손한 자의 영을 소성케 하며 통회하는 자의 마음을 소성케 하려 함이라 16내가 영원히는 다투지 아니하며 내가 장구히는 노하지 아니할 것은 나의 지은 그 영과 혼이 내 앞에서 곤비할까 함이니라 17그의 탐심의 죄악을 인하여 내가 노하여 그를 쳤으며 또 내 얼굴을 가리우고 노하였으나 그가 오히려 패역하여 자기 마음의 길로 행하도다 18내가 그 길을 보았은즉 그를 고쳐 줄 것이라 그를 인도하며 그와 그의 슬퍼하는 자에게 위로를 다시 얻게 하리라 19입술의 열매를 짓는 나 여호와가 말하노라 먼 데 있는 자에게든지 가까운 데 있는 자에게든지 평강이 있을지어다 평강이 있을지어다 내가 그를 고치리라 하셨느니라 20오직 악인은 능히 안정치 못하고 그 물이 진흙과 더러운 것을 늘 솟쳐내는 요동하는 바다와 같으니라 21내 하나님의 말씀에 악인에게는 평강이 없다 하셨느니라

1The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. 2He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. 3“But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute. 4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, 5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; you have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? 7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice. 8Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your memorial: for you have uncovered to someone besides me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it. 9You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol. 10You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. 11“Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace even of long time, and you don’t fear me? 12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you. 13When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.” 14He will say, “Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.” 15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made. 17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. 19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.” 20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”

1De rechtvaardige komt om, en er is niemand, die het ter harte neemt; en de weldadige lieden worden weggeraapt, zonder dat er iemand op let, dat de rechtvaardige weggeraapt wordt voor het kwaad. 2Hij zal ingaan in den vrede; zij zullen rusten op hun slaapsteden, een iegelijk, die in zijn oprechtheid gewandeld heeft. 3Doch nadert gijlieden hier toe, gij kinderen der guichelares! gij overspelig zaad, en gij, die hoererij bedrijft! 4Over wien maakt gij u lustig, over wien spert gij den mond wijd open en steekt de tong lang uit? Zijt gij niet kinderen der overtreding, een zaad der valsheid? 5Die hittig zijt in de eikenbossen, onder allen groenen boom; slachtende de kinderen aan de beken, onder de hoeken der steenrotsen. 6Aan de gladde stenen der beken is uw deel, die, die zijn uw lot; ook stort gij denzelven drankoffer uit, gij offert hun spijsoffer; zou Ik Mij over deze dingen troosten laten? 7Gij stelt uw leger op een hogen en verhevenen berg; ook klimt gij derwaarts op, om slachtoffer te offeren. 8En achter de deur en posten zet gij uw gedenkteken; want van Mij wijkende ontdekt gij u, en klimt op; gij maakt uw leger wijd, en maakt u een verbond met enigen uit dezelve, gij hebt hun leger lief in elke plaats, die gij ziet. 9En gij trekt met olie tot den koning, en gij vermenigvuldigt uw welriekende zalven; en gij zendt uw gezanten verre weg, en vernedert u tot de hel toe. 10Gij zijt vermoeid door uw grote reis, maar gij zegt niet: Het is buiten hoop; gij hebt het leven uwer hand gevonden, daarom wordt gij niet ziek. 11Maar voor wien hebt gij geschroomd of gevreesd? Want gij hebt gelogen, en zijt Mijner niet gedachtig geweest, gij hebt Mij op uw hart niet gelegd; is het niet, om dat Ik zwijg, en dat van ouds af, en gij vreest Mij niet? 12Ik zal uw gerechtigheid bekend maken, en uw werken, dat zij u geen nut doen zullen. 13Wanneer gij roepen zult, zo laat die, die van u vergaderd zijn, u redden; doch de wind zal hen allen wegvoeren, de ijdelheid zal hen wegnemen. Maar die op Mij betrouwt, die zal het aardrijk erven, en Mijn heiligen berg erfelijk bezitten. 14En men zal zeggen: Verhoogt de baan, verhoogt de baan, bereidt den weg, neemt den aanstoot uit den weg Mijns volks. 15Want alzo zegt de Hoge en Verhevene, Die in de eeuwigheid woont, en Wiens Naam heilig is: Ik woon in de hoogte en in het heilige, en bij dien, die van een verbrijzelden en nederigen geest is, opdat Ik levend make den geest der nederigen, en opdat Ik levend make het hart der verbrijzelden. 16Want Ik zal niet eeuwiglijk twisten, en Ik zal niet geduriglijk verbolgen zijn; want de geest zou van voor Mijn aangezicht overstelpt worden, en de zielen, die Ik gemaakt heb. 17Ik was verbolgen over de ongerechtigheid hunner gierigheid, en sloeg hen; Ik verborg Mij, en was verbolgen; evenwel gingen zij afkerig henen in den weg huns harten. 18Ik zie hun wegen, en Ik zal hen genezen; en Ik zal hen geleiden, en hun vertroostingen wedergeven, namelijk aan hun treurigen. 19Ik schep de vrucht der lippen, vrede, vrede dengenen, die verre zijn, en dengenen, die nabij zijn, zegt de HEERE, en Ik zal hen genezen. 20Doch de goddelozen zijn als een voortgedreven zee, want die kan niet rusten, en haar wateren werpen slijk en modder op. 21De goddelozen, zegt mijn God, hebben geen vrede.