Isaiah Chapter 59
59:1 | Behold, the LORD' hand is not shortened, that it cannot ![]() |
59:2 | But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. |
59:3 | For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. |
59:4 | None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for ![]() ![]() |
59:5 | They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider' web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. |
59:6 | Their webs shall not become ![]() |
59:7 | Their ![]() ![]() |
59:8 | The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. |
59:9 | Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness. |
59:10 | We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noon ![]() |
59:11 | We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us. |
59:12 | For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; |
59:13 | In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. |
59:14 | And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for ![]() |
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59:16 | And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. |
59:17 | For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the ![]() ![]() |
59:18 | According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. |
59:19 | So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his ![]() ![]() ![]() |
59:20 | And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. |
59:21 | As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My ![]() |