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Whom are you mocking?
    And[a] against whom do you make a wide mouth
        and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
    the offspring of lies,
you who burn with lust among the oaks,
    under every spreading tree,
who slaughter your children in the ravines,
    under the clefts of the rocks?

“Among the smooth stones[b] of the ravines is your portion—
    there they are as[c] your lot.
To them you have poured out drink offerings;
    you have brought grain offerings.
        Should I be lenient over such things?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:4 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT lack And
  2. Isaiah 57:6 I.e. among the idols
  3. Isaiah 57:6 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsai MT reads they—yes, they!—are; LXX reads there this is