23:056:007 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain,
and make them
joyful
in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and
their
sacrifices
shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
shall
be called an house of prayer for all people.
23:056:008 The Lord god, which gathereth the
outcasts of Israel saith,
Yet
will I gather others to him, beside those that are
gathered
unto him.
23:056:009 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour,
yea, all ye beasts
in
the forest.
23:056:010 His watchmen are blind: they are all
ignorant, they are all
dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving
to
slumber.
23:056:011 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never
have enough, and
they
are shepherds that cannot understand: they all
look to
their
own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
23:056:012 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and
we will fill
ourselves
with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
day,
and much more abundant.
23:057:001 The 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.
23:057:002 He shall enter into peace: they shall
rest in their beds, each
one
walking in his uprightness.
23:057:003 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of
the
adulterer and the whore.
23:057:004 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.
23:057:005 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every
green tree,
slaying
the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks?
23:057:006 Among 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?
23:057:007 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou
set thy bed: even
thither
wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
23:057:008 Behind 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.
23:057:009 And 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.


