Isaiah 57:16-18

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¹⁶ For I will not continually accuse,
    nor will I always be angry,
for then the spirits would grow faint before me,
    even the souls that I have made.^(A)
17 Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry;
    I struck them; I hid and was angry,
    but they kept turning back to their own ways.^(B)
18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
    I will lead them and repay them with comfort,