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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 59 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/59.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/59-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Isaiah 59</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/58.htm" title="Isaiah 58">◄</a> Isaiah 59 <a href="../isaiah/60.htm" title="Isaiah 60">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/59-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Sin Separates Us from God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away <i>his</i> face from you, so as not to have mercy <i>upon you</i>.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty <i>words</i>; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They shall feel for the wall as blind <i>men</i>, and shall feel <i>for it</i> as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For our iniquity is great before thee, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight <i>path</i>.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside <i>their</i> mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and stablished <i>them</i> with <i>his</i> mercy.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Covenant of the Redeemer<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>as one about to render a recompence, <i>even</i> reproach to his adversaries.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they <i>that come</i> from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the deliverer shall come for Sion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/58.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 58"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 58" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/60.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 60"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 60" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>