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<p class="indent2">Nor is His ear so <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>dull <p class="indent2">That it cannot hear. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, <p class="indent2">And your sins have hidden <i>His</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>face from you so that He does not hear. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For your hands are defiled with blood <p class="indent2">And your fingers with iniquity; <p class="indent2">Your lips have spoken a lie; <p class="indent2">Your tongue mutters unrighteousness. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth. <p class="indent2">They trust in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>confusion and speak worthlessness; <p class="indent2">They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They break open vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; <p class="indent2">He who eats of their eggs dies, <p class="indent2">And <i>from</i> that which is crushed a snake breaks forth. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their webs will not become a garment, <p class="indent2">Nor will they cover themselves with their works; <p class="indent2">Their works are works of wickedness, <p class="indent2">And a deed of violence is in their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hands. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their feet run to evil, <p class="indent2">And they are quick to shed innocent blood; <p class="indent2">Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; <p class="indent2">Devastation and destruction are in their highways. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They do not know the way of peace, <p class="indent2">And there is no justice in their tracks; <p class="indent2">They have made their paths crooked, <p class="indent2">Whoever treads on <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>them does not know peace. <p class="hdg">Trangressing and Denying Yahweh</p><p><p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore justice is far from us, <p class="indent2">And righteousness does not overtake us; <p class="indent2">We hope for light, but behold, darkness, <p class="indent2">For brightness, but we walk in thick darkness. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We grope along the wall like blind men; <p class="indent2">We grope like those who have no eyes; <p class="indent2">We stumble at midday as in the twilight, <p class="indent2">Among those who are vigorous <i>we are</i> like dead men. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All of us growl like bears, <p class="indent2">And moan sadly like doves; <p class="indent2">We hope for justice, but there is none, <p class="indent2">For salvation, <i>but</i> it is far from us. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For our transgressions are multiplied before You, <p class="indent2">And our sins answer against us; <p class="indent2">For our transgressions are with us, <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>we know our iniquities: <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Transgressing and denying Yahweh, <p class="indent2">And turning back from our God, <p class="indent2">Speaking oppression and revolt, <p class="indent2">Conceiving <i>in</i> and uttering from the heart lying words. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Justice is turned back, <p class="indent2">And righteousness stands far away; <p class="indent2">For truth has stumbled in the street, <p class="indent2">And rightness cannot enter. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So it is that truth is missing; <p class="indent2">And he who turns aside from evil makes himself plunder. <p class="indent2">Then Yahweh saw, <p class="indent2">And it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He saw that there was no man, <p class="indent2">And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; <p class="indent2">Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, <p class="indent2">And His righteousness upheld Him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He put on righteousness like a breastplate, <p class="indent2">And a helmet of salvation on His head; <p class="indent2">And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing <p class="indent2">And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>According to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>what they deserve, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>so He will pay in full, <p class="indent2">Wrath to His adversaries, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>what is deserved to His enemies; <p class="indent2">To the coastlands He will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>pay what they deserve. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So they will fear the name of Yahweh from the west <p class="indent2">And His glory from the rising of the sun, <p class="indent2">For He will come like a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>rushing stream <p class="indent2">Which the wind of Yahweh makes flee. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“A Redeemer will come to Zion, <p class="indent2">And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares Yahweh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says Yahweh: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, nor from the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from now and forever.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>heavy</i>, <i>hardened</i>; cf. Ex 8:15; 1 Sam 6:6<br><span class="fnverse">2</span> As in versions; M.T. <i>faces</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>formless</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>palms</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>it</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>our iniquities we know them</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>recompense</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>accordingly</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>recompense</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>recompense</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>narrow</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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