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14 And one has said:[a]
    ‘Build up! Build up the road![b]
        Prepare the highway!
Remove every obstacle from my people’s way.’

15 “For this is what the high and lofty One says,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“He lives[c] in the height and in holiness,[d]
    and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 For I won’t accuse forever,
    nor will I always be angry;
for then the human spirit would grow faint before me—
    even the souls that I have created.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one will say; or I will say; LXX reads they will say
  2. Isaiah 57:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks the road
  3. Isaiah 57:15 So 1QIsaa 4QIsad; MT reads I live
  4. Isaiah 57:15 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT read in the high and holy place

Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it will be said:

“Build up, build up, prepare the road!(A)
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”(B)
15 For this is what the high and exalted(C) One says—
    he who lives forever,(D) whose name is holy:
“I live in a high(E) and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite(F) and lowly in spirit,(G)
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.(H)
16 I will not accuse(I) them forever,
    nor will I always be angry,(J)
for then they would faint away because of me—
    the very people(K) I have created.

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