Isaiah 57:13-20

13When you cry out for help, let your idols help you! The wind blows them all away, a breeze carries them away. But the one who looks to me for help will inherit the land and will have access to my holy mountain.”

14He says, “Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”

15For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

16For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

18I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

19I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them.

20But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand.