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Against whom do you jest?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of (A)transgression,
Seed of lying,
Who inflame yourselves among the [a](B)oaks,
(C)Under every green tree,
Who (D)slaughter the children in the [b]ravines,
Under the clefts of the cliffs?
Among the [c](E)smooth stones of the [d]ravine
Is your portion, [e]they are your lot;
Even to them you have (F)poured out a drink offering;
You have made a grain offering.
Shall I [f](G)relent concerning these things?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or terebinths
  2. Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis
  3. Isaiah 57:6 Symbols of fertility gods
  4. Isaiah 57:6 Or wadi
  5. Isaiah 57:6 Lit they, they
  6. Isaiah 57:6 Or regret, be comforted; cf. 40:1