13. When you cry out, will your collection of idols save you? The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in Me will possess the land, and will inherit My holy mountain.”
14. Then it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every stumbling block out of the way of My people.”
15. For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.
16. For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would grow weak before Me, the breath of those whom I made.
17. Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry; I struck him; I hid My face; I was angry—but he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him. I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners.
19. Creating the praise of lips: ‘Shalom, shalom to him who is far and to him who is near,’ says Adonai, ‘and I will heal him.’”
20. But the wicked are like a troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
21. “There is no shalom,” says my God “for the wicked.”