ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

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JONAH (825-785BC)?

JOEL (800BC)?

HOSEA (785-725BC)?

MICAH (785-710BC)?

AMOS (784BC)?

ISAIAH (701-681BC)?

NAHUM (700BC)?

ZEPHANIAH (630BC)?

JEREMIAH (629-588BC)?

DANIEL (606-534BC)?

HABAKKUK (598BC)?

EZEKIEL (597-573BC)?

OBADIAH (588-562BC)?

EZRA (536-456BC)?

HAGGAI (532-512BC)?

ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)?

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TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)?

HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)?

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ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?

SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)?

NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?

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CYRUS (559-529BC)?

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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY V. 1-13

HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER V. 14-21

READ: ISAIAH 57:1-2ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY

1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1-2ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY

1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?

WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM?WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH?WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SRIBES & PHARISEES?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY

1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?

READ: PSALMS 12:11 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. NKJV

READ: MICAH 7:22 The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM?READ: 1 KINGS 14:9-13

9 You have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back —10 therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.11 The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!"‘12 Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:11 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS?WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH?

READ: 2 KINGS 21:1616 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV

WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH?

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 33:10-1310 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,13 and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH?

READ: 2 KINGS 22:18-2018 But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall speak to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Concerning the words which you have heard —19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD.20 Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place."'" So they brought back word to the king.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES & PHARISEES?

READ: MATTHEW 23:29-3629 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31 "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES & PHARISEES?

READ: MATTHEW 23:29-3634 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. NKJV


WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?

WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?READ: ISAIAH 42:24-25

24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to His law. 25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart. NKJV


WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER?

WHAT DID PETER SAY TO THE JEWS?

READ: ACTS 3:14-1514 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:12 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAM?READ: GENESIS 15:13-15

13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.



READ: JOB 3:13 & 1713 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

17 There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest. NKJV



READ: PSALMS 37:3737 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright;For the future of that man is peace. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO DANIEL?READ: DANIEL 12:13

13 "But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.“ NKJV



WHAT DID SIMEON SAY TO THE LORD?READ: LUKE 2:29-32

29 "Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word; 30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation 31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, 32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel." NKJV



READ: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:14-1514 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.



READ: HEBREWS 4:9-109 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. NKJV

READ: REVELATION 14:1313 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'“ "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them." NKJV


3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!

4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,

5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?


3 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!4 Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,5 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?

HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?




WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?

READ: EXODUS 22:1818 "You shall not permit a sorceress to live. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:33 "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!


WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?READ: 2 KINGS 21:6-7

6 Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:3



READ: ISAIAH 1:21

1 How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 2:6

6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners. NKJV


HOW DID THE LORD REFER TO ISRAEL? WHY?READ: JEREMIAH 2:20

20 "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,‘ When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot. NKJV

READ: MALACHI 3:55 And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers,Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien — Because they do not fear Me,“ Says the LORD of hosts. NKJV



WHAT DID JESUS SAY?READ: MATTHEW 12:39

30 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

READ: MATTHEW 16:44 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed.



WHO IS JAMES REFERRING TO? JEWS? GENTILES?

READ: JAMES 4:44 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. NKJV



WHO IS ISAIAH SPEAKING TO?WHO ARE THEY RIDICULING?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 36:15-1615 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy. NKJV




READ: ISAIAH 1:2-32 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me; 3 The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master's crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider." NKJV




WHAT ARE THEIR ENEMIES DOING?

READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:1616 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; We have found it, we have seen it!" NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:55 Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?

WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?


READ: LEVITICUS 18:20-2121 You shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. NKJV




READ: DEUTERONOMY 12:2-42 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.4 You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things. NKJV


WHAT WAS ISRAEL DOING?WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 12:29-3129 "When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.‘31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. NKJV




READ: DEUTERONOMY 18:9-119 "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:5WHAT GODS DID THE SAMARITANS SERVE?

READ: 2 KINGS 17:29-3329 Every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt.30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,31 and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.32 So they feared the LORD, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.33 They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods — according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:5WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?READ: 2 KINGS 16:2-4

2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had done.3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel. NKJV

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 28:3-43 He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:5WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 33:3-63 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.“5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.6 He caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. NKJV



WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?READ: PSALMS 106:35-38

35 But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned their works; 36 They served their idols, Which became a snare to them. 37 They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood. NKJV


WHAT HAPPEN TO JUDAH & JERUSALEM? WHY?

READ: JEREMIAH 7:32-34

32 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room.

33 The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate. NKJV



WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?

READ: EZEKIEL 16:20-2120 "Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?NKJV


6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.

8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have set up your remembrance; For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up to them; You have enlarged your bed And made a covenant with them; You have loved their bed, Where you saw their nudity.


6 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these? 7 "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.8 Also behind the doors and their posts You have set up your remembrance; For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up to them; You have enlarged your bed And made a covenant with them; You have loved their bed, Where you saw their nudity.

WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?



WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?

WHAT DID JACOB OFFER ON THE PILLAR OF STONE?GENESIS 35:14-15

14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel. NKJV



WHAT DID THEY OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?

WHAT DID THE LORD ASK FOR AS AN OFFERING?READ: NUMBERS 15:4-5

4 He who presents his offering to the LORD shall bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil;5 and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:6WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?

READ: 2 KINGS 17:9-129 The children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger,12 for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing." NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:66 Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?READ: JEREMIAH 3:8-10

8 Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.9 So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD. NKJV


WHAT DID ISRAEL OFFER ON THE SMOOTH STONES?READ: JEREMIAH 7:18

18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 19:1313 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to other gods."'" NKJV


WHY DID ISRAEL MAKE THESE OFFERINGS?READ: JEREMIAH 44:17-18

17 But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." NKJV



WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?READ: JEREMIAH 3:6

6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 13:2727 I have seen your adulteries And your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?" NKJV


WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?READ: EZEKIEL 6:2-3

2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 6:1313 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols. NKJV



WHERE DID THEY OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES?READ: EZEKIEL 20:27-28

27 "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me. 28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?

WHAT DID THEY SET UP ON THEIR POSTS?

WHO DID THEY MAKE THEIR COVENANT WITH?


WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?


READ: DEUTERONOMY 6:6-9

6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:8WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM TO DO?


READ: DEUTERONOMY 11:18-2118 "Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?HOW DID THEY RESPOND?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 27:14-1514 "And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:15 'Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.‘ "And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen!' NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND THEM?WHO DID THEY MAKE THEIR COVENANT WITH?

READ: EXODUS 19:55 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

READ: EXODUS 23:3232 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:8WHAT WAS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR IDOLATRY?

READ: EZEKIEL 23:1818 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness. Then I alienated Myself from her, As I had alienated Myself from her sister. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 16:36-3736 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,37 surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. NKJV


9 You went to the king with ointment, And increased your perfumes; You sent your messengers far off, And even descended to Sheol.

10 You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.‘ You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.


9 You went to the king with ointment, And increased your perfumes; You sent your messengers far off, And even descended to Sheol.10 You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.‘ You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.

WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?

WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?

WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR ENDEAVOR?



WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?


READ: LEVITICUS 18:2121 You shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:9WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?

READ: 1 KINGS 11:1-81 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites —2 from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:9WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?

READ: 1 KINGS 11:1-85 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as did his father David.7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.8 And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:9WHAT DID AHAZ DO?

READ: 2 KINGS 16:1-112 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had done.3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.


READ: 2 KINGS 16:1-117 Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.“8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, and sent it as a present to the king of Assyria.9 So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.


READ: 2 KINGS 16:1-1110 Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.11 Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus. NKJV


READ: ISAIAH 7:1-61 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.


READ: ISAIAH 7:1-63 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field,4 and say to him: 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,6 "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel" — NKJV

(2 CHRONICLES 28:5-15)



WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?

READ: ISAIAH 30:1-2FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT

1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD,"Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin; 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:9WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?

READ: HOSEA 7:11-1411 "Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense — They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria. 12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard. 13 "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me. 14 They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. "They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me; NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:9WHO DID THEY GO TO? WHY?

READ: HOSEA 12:11 "Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt. NKJV

WHAT SHOULD THEY HAVE DONE?

READ: ISAIAH 8:1919 And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? NKJV


10 You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.‘ You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.

WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR ENDEAVOR? READ: ISAIAH 47:13

13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 2:2525 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'There is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.' NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:10HOW DID THEY RESPOND?

READ: JEREMIAH 18:1212 And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart." NKJV

READ: MALACHI 3:14-1514 You have said, 'It is useless to serve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts? 15 So now we call the proud blessed, For those who do wickedness are raised up; They even tempt God and go free.'" NKJV


11 "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me?

12 I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain."

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1111 "And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, That you have lied And not remembered Me, Nor taken it to your heart? Is it not because I have held My peace from of old That you do not fear Me?

WHO DO THEY FEAR?WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?

IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?

WHO SHOULD THEY FEAR?READ: PROVERBS 29:25

25 The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe. NKJV


WHO DO THEY FEAR?

WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?


READ: ECCLESIASTES 8:12-13

12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

13 But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God. NKJV


WHO DO THEY FEAR?

WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?


READ: ISAIAH 17:10-11

10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;

11 In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:11WHO DO THEY FEAR?

WHO HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN? WHY?IS IT BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HELD HIS PEACE?

READ: ISAIAH 51:12-1312 "I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid Of a man who will die, And of the son of a man who will be made like grass? 13 And you forget the LORD your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth; You have feared continually every day Because of the fury of the oppressor, When he has prepared to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor? NKJV



READ: JEREMIAH 2:3232 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 3:2121 A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God. NKJV



READ: JEREMIAH 13:2525 This is your lot, The portion of your measures from Me," says the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 18:15-1615 "Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway, 16 To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head. NKJV



READ: PSALMS 83:11 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace,And do not be still, O God! NKJV

READ: PSALMS 50:19-2119 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent;You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.


12 I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DECLARE?

READ: EZEKIEL 16:2

2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, NKJV

HOW DO THEY RESPOND?

READ: ISAIAH 29:15

15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, And their works are in the dark; They say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who knows us?“ NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:12WHAT WILL THE LORD DECLARE?

READ: MICAH 3:1-41 "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?2 You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron." 4 Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time,Because they have been evil in their deeds. NKJV

8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin. NKJV


13 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain.“

WHO DO THEY CRY OUT TO?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? WHY?

READ: JOB 21:18-19

18 They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away.

19 They say, 'God lays up one's iniquity for his children'; Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1313 When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain.“

WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FOOLISH MAN?READ: MATTHEW 7:26-27

26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall." NKJV


WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

READ: PSALMS 37:9-119 For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the LORD, They shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, But it shall be no more. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. NKJV

(MATTHEW 5:5)Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth


WHO SHOULD THEY TRUST?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

READ: PSALMS 69:35-3635 For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it. 36 Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it, And those who love His name shall dwell in it. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 57:14-15HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER

14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."

15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:14-15HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER

14 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people." 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

WHAT WILL ONE SAY?WHY DID THEY STUMBLE?WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?

WHO WILL DWELL WITH THE LORD? WHY?

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1414 And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."

WHAT WILL ONE SAY?

WHY DID THEY STUMBLE?

READ: JEREMIAH 18:1515 "Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway, NKJV


WHAT WILL ONE SAY?

WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?READ: ISAIAH 11:16

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for IsraelIn the day that he came up from the land of Egypt. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 35:88 A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray. NKJV


WHAT WILL ONE SAY?

WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?READ: ISAIAH 40:3-5

3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth; 5 The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." NKJV


WHAT WILL ONE SAY?WHAT WAS THE STUMBLING BLOCK?

WHAT DID ISAIAH PROPHESY?READ: ISAIAH 28:16

16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily. NKJV


WHAT WILL ONE SAY?

WHAT WAS THE STUMBLING BLOCK?READ: 1 PETER 2:6-8

6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,"Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame." 7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone," 8 and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. NKJV


WHAT WILL ONE SAY?

WHAT WAS THE STUMBLING BLOCK?

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:22-2522 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1515 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

HOW DOES THE LORD IDENTIFY HIMSELF?

READ: ISAIAH 47:44 As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 41:1414 "Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel!I will help you," says the LORD And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:15HOW DOES THE LORD IDENTIFY HIMSELF?

READ: ISAIAH 43:33 For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 43:14-1514 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives — The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King." NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1515 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH?READ: 2 KINGS 22:18-20

19 Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:15WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?

READ: PSALMS 34:1818 The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 51:1717 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart — These, O God, You will not despise. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 138:66 Though the LORD is on high, Yet He regards the lowly; But the proud He knows from afar. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:15WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?

READ: MICAH 6:88 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? NKJV

READ: MATTHEW 5:33 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. NKJV

READ: MATTHEW 23:1212 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. NKJV


16 For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.

17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.


16 For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

WHAT IS THE LORD SAYING TO THE BACKSLIDERS?WHY WAS THE LORD ANGRY WITH THEM?


QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1616 For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.

WHY WAS THE LORD ANGRY WITH THEM?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?

READ: GENESIS 6:33 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.“



WHAT DID NOAH DO TO PLEASE THE LORD?READ: GENESIS 8:20-21

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:16WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: PSALMS 78:38-3938 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath; 39 For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 85:5-75 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations? 6 Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You? 7 Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation. NKJV


WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: PSALMS 103:9-149 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

13 As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him. 14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:16WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: PSALMS 104:29-3029 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 107:5-65 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,And He delivered them out of their distresses. NKJV


WHAT DID ISAIAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: ISAIAH 54:99 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. NKJV


WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: LAMENTATIONS 3:33-3633 For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men. 34 To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth, 35 To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High, 36 Or subvert a man in his cause — The Lord does not approve. NKJV


WHAT DID MICAH SAY ABOUT THE LORD?

READ: MICAH 7:1818 Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:17HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER



WHAT DID THE LORD DO?

READ: PSALMS 81:1212 So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart,To walk in their own counsels. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:17WHY WAS THE LORD ANGRY WITH THEM?

READ: ISAIAH 1:44 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity,A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.

READ: ISAIAH 1:1515 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers,I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. NKJV


READ: ISAIAH 30:1515 Thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.“ But you would not, NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 56:1111 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory. NKJV


READ: JEREMIAH 6:1313 "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness;And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 8:1010 Therefore I will give their wives to others, And their fields to those who will inherit them; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is given to covetousness; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely. NKJV




READ: ROMANS 1:24-2624 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. NKJV


18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

WHAT IS THE LORD SAYING TO THE BACKSLIDERS?


READ: 2 CHRONICLES 7:1414 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:18WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

READ: ISAIAH 42:1616 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight.These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.

READ: ISAIAH 48:1717 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:18WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

READ: JEREMIAH 3:2222 "Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.“ NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 33:66 Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. NKJV

READ: HOSEA 14:44 "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely,For My anger has turned away from him. NKJV


19 "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,“ Says the LORD, "And I will heal him.“

20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

21 "There is no peace,“ Says my God, "for the wicked." NKJV


19 "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,“ Says the LORD, "And I will heal him.“20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 "There is no peace,“ Says my God, "for the wicked." NKJV

WHO IS NEAR? WHO IS FAR?


WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED?

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1919 "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,“ Says the LORD, "And I will heal him.“

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?READ: ISAIAH 26:12

12 LORD, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 32:1717 The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 26:33 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

READ: ROMANS 5:1-21 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. NKJV


19 "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,“ Says the LORD, "And I will heal him.“



READ: ROMANS 10:12-13

12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.

13 For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.“ NKJV




READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1313 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?READ: EPHESIANS 2:14 & 17

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,

17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:20-2120 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 "There is no peace,“ Says my God, "for the wicked." NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED?

WHAT DID ISRAEL SAY ABOUT REUBEN? WHY?READ: GENESIS 49:3-4

3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. 4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you defiled it — He went up to my couch. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:20-21WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED?

WHAT DID JEHU SAY TO JORAM?

READ: 2 KINGS 9:21-2221 Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.22 Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?“ So he answered, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?" NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:20-21WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED?

WHAT DID JOB SAY ABOUT THE WICKED?

READ: JOB 18:5-85 "The light of the wicked indeed goes out, And the

flame of his fire does not shine. 6 The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside

him is put out. 7 The steps of his strength are shortened, And his

own counsel casts him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he

walks into a snare. NKJV

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:3-6WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?

READ: ISAIAH 48:2222 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked." NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 13:15-1615 "Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with un-tempered mortar; and I will say to you, 'The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, 16 that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,'" says the Lord GOD. NKJV

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