Isaiah 57v1-13

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to see the futility of everything which is outside the kingdom of God.

¹ The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart.
⁴ Aren’t you children of disobedience
    and offspring of falsehood,
⁵ you who inflame yourselves among the oaks;   [giving worship to someone/thing that isn’t God]
who kill the children in the valleys                        [sacrificing precious people/things in pursuit of something which is not God]
⁷ On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.                           [making you bed and lying in it]
    You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
⁸ you have exposed yourself to someone besides me.
 You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them.
¹⁰ You were wearied with the length of your ways;
    yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’
¹³ When you cry,
    let those whom you have gathered deliver you;
but the wind will take them.
    a breath will carry them all away:
but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land,
    and will inherit my holy mountain.”