---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Isaiah from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 57
verse_count: 21
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Isaiah, chap. 57, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Isaiah 57

*The blessed death of the righteous— God reproveth idolatry Promises to the penitent.*

**1** 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.
**2** He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
**3** But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
**4** 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,
**5** Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
**6** 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?
**7** Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed; even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
**8** 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.
**9** 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.
**10** Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not,. There is no hope; thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
**11** And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
**12** I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
**13** When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
**14** And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
**15** For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
**16** For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
**17** For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
**18** I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
**19** I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith 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, saith my God, to the wicked.