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See here sin in true colours, exceedingly sinful; and see sin in its consequences, exceedingly hurtful, separating from God, and so separating us, not only from all good, but to all evil. Yet numbers feed, to their own destruction, on infidel and wicked systems. Nor can their skill or craft, in devising schemes, as the spider weaves its web, deliver or save them. No schemes of self-wrought salvation shall avail those who despise the Redeemer's robe of righteousness. Every man who is destitute of the Spirit of Christ, runs swiftly to evil of some sort; but those regardless of Divine truth and justice, are strangers to peace.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-2.htm">Isaiah 59:2</a></div><div class="verse">But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid <i>his</i> face from you, that he will not hear.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-3.htm">Isaiah 59:3</a></div><div class="verse">For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-4.htm">Isaiah 59:4</a></div><div class="verse">None calleth for justice, nor <i>any</i> pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-5.htm">Isaiah 59:5</a></div><div class="verse">They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-6.htm">Isaiah 59:6</a></div><div class="verse">Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works <i>are</i> works of iniquity, and the act of violence <i>is</i> in their hands.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm">Isaiah 59:7</a></div><div class="verse">Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts <i>are</i> thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction <i>are</i> in their paths.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm">Isaiah 59:8</a></div><div class="verse">The way of peace they know not; and <i>there is</i> no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-9.htm">Isaiah 59:9</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, <i>but</i> we walk in darkness.</div><div class="comm">59:9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are worse than the sins of others. And the sins of a nation bring public judgments, when not restrained by public justice. Men may murmur under calamities, but nothing will truly profit while they reject Christ and his gospel.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Isaiah 59:10</a></div><div class="verse">We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if <i>we had</i> no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; <i>we are</i> in desolate places as dead <i>men</i>.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-11.htm">Isaiah 59:11</a></div><div class="verse">We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but <i>there is</i> none; for salvation, <i>but</i> it is far off from us.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-12.htm">Isaiah 59:12</a></div><div class="verse">For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions <i>are</i> with us; and <i>as for</i> our iniquities, we know them;</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-13.htm">Isaiah 59:13</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm">Isaiah 59:14</a></div><div class="verse">And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-15.htm">Isaiah 59:15</a></div><div class="verse">Yea, truth faileth; and he <i>that</i> departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw <i>it</i>, and it displeased him that <i>there was</i> no judgment.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-16.htm">Isaiah 59:16</a></div><div class="verse">And he saw that <i>there was</i> no man, and wondered that <i>there was</i> no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.</div><div class="comm">59:16-21 This passage is connected with the following chapters. It is generally thought to describe the coming of the Messiah, as the Avenger and Deliverer of his church. There was none to intercede with God to turn away his wrath; none to interpose for the support of justice and truth. Yet He engaged his own strength and righteousness for his people. God will make his justice upon the enemies of his church and people plainly appear. When the enemy threatens to bear down all without control, then the Spirit of the Lord shall stop him, put him to flight. He that has delivered, will still deliver. A far more glorious salvation is promised to be wrought out by the Messiah in the fulness of time, which all the prophets had in view. The Son of God shall come to us to be our Redeemer; the Spirit of God shall come to be our Sanctifier: thus the Comforter shall abide with the church for ever, Joh 14:16. The word of Christ will always continue in the mouths of the faithful; and whatever is pretended to be the mind of the Spirit, must be tried by the Scriptures. We must lament the progress of infidelity and impiety. But the cause of the Redeemer shall gain a complete victory even on earth, and the believer will be more than conqueror when the Lord receives him to his glory in heaven.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-17.htm">Isaiah 59:17</a></div><div class="verse">For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance <i>for</i> clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm">Isaiah 59:18</a></div><div class="verse">According to <i>their</i> deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-19.htm">Isaiah 59:19</a></div><div class="verse">So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-20.htm">Isaiah 59:20</a></div><div class="verse">And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/59-21.htm">Isaiah 59:21</a></div><div class="verse">As for me, this <i>is</i> my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that <i>is</i> upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.</div><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible by Matthew Henry<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/isaiah/59-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>