12. “Let Me declare your righteousness and your works, for they do not profit you.
13. “When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind shall bear them all away, a breath take them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land, and possess My set-apart mountain.”
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 declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, “I dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones.
16. “For I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made.
17. “For the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I smote him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18. “I have seen his ways, but now I heal him, and I lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners,
19. creating the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” said יהוה, “and I shall heal him.”
20. But the wrong are like the troubled sea, for it is unable to rest, and its waters cast up mud and dirt.
21. “There is no peace,” said my Elohim, “for the wrong.”