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MT LXX read ear">a</a></span> too dull to hear.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Instead, your iniquities have been barriers</p> <p class="poetry2">between you and your God,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your sins have concealed his face from you</p> <p class="poetry2">so that he won’t listen.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For your hands are defiled with blood,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your fingers with iniquity;</p> <p class="poetry2">your tongue<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read your lips have spoken lies, your tongue">b</a></span> mutters wickedness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>No one brings a lawsuit fairly,</p> <p class="poetry2">and no one goes to law honestly;</p> <p class="poetry2">they have relied<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:4 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT reads they rely ">c</a></span> on empty arguments</p> <p class="poetry2">and they tell lies;</p> <p class="poetry2">they conceive<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT reads to conceive">d</a></span> trouble</p> <p class="poetry2">and give birth<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:4 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT reads and to give birth">e</a></span> to iniquity.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They hatch<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT reads They have hatched; LXX reads hatched">f</a></span> adders’ eggs<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read an adder’s eggs ">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and weave<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads weave, but with a different Heb. word">h</a></span> a spider’s web;</p> <p class="poetry2">whoever eats their eggs dies,</p> <p class="poetry2">and any crushed egg hatches out futility.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:5 Lit. a viper; so 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX utilize feminine form">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their cobwebs cannot become clothing,</p> <p class="poetry2">they cannot cover themselves with what they make.</p> <p class="poetry2">Their deeds are deeds of iniquity,</p> <p class="poetry2">and acts of violence fill their hands.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their feet rush to evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they are quick to shed innocent blood.</p> <p class="poetry2">Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;</p> <p class="poetry2">ruin, destruction, and violence<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and violence">j</a></span> are in their paths.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The pathway of peace they do not know,</p> <p class="poetry2">and there is no justice in their courses.</p> <p class="poetry2">They have made their roads crooked;</p> <p class="poetry2">no one who walks in them will know peace.”</p> <p class="heading">A Commitment to Wait on God</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“So justice is far from us,</p> <p class="poetry2">and righteousness does not reach us.</p> <p class="poetry2">We wait for light, but look—there is darkness;</p> <p class="poetry2">we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads darknesses">k</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let’s grope<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads We grope LXX reads They grope">l</a></span> along the wall like the blind;</p> <p class="poetry2">let us grope like those who have no eyes.</p> <p class="poetry2">We stumble at midday as if it were twilight,</p> <p class="poetry2">in desolate places<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:10 Or among vigorous people">m</a></span> like dead people.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We all growl like bears;</p> <p class="poetry2">we<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and we">n</a></span> sigh mournfully like doves.</p> <p class="poetry2">We look for justice, but there is none,</p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:11 So 1QIsaa; Not in MT LXX">o</a></span> for deliverance, but it’s far from us.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“For our transgressions before you are many,</p> <p class="poetry2">and our sins testify<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:12 1QIsaa cf. LXX; MT reads sin testifies">p</a></span> against us;</p> <p class="poetry2">for our transgressions are with us,</p> <p class="poetry2">and as for our iniquities,</p> <p class="poetry2">we acknowledge them:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>they’ve rebelled<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads rebellion LXX reads we have sinned">q</a></span> in<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:13 Lit. and">r</a></span> treachery against the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">and are turning away from following our God;</p> <p class="poetry2">and they’ve spoken<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads speaking LXX reads we have spoken">s</a></span> oppression and revolt,</p> <p class="poetry2">and are conceiving<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads conceiving and uttering; LXX reads we have conceived and thought about">t</a></span> lying words from the heart.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I’ll drive back justice,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Justice is driven back LXX reads We withdrew justice">u</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and righteousness stands at a distance;</p> <p class="poetry2">for truth has fallen in the public square,</p> <p class="poetry2">and honesty cannot enter.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Truth is missing,</p> <p class="poetry2">and whoever turns away from evil becomes a prey.”</p> <p class="heading">God Brings His Own Salvation</p><p class="poetry2">“Then the LORD looked, and it displeased him</p> <p class="poetry2">that there was no justice.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He saw that there was no one,</p> <p class="poetry2">and was appalled that there was no one to intervene;</p> <p class="poetry2">so his own arm<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:16 i.e. the Messiah">v</a></span> brought him victory,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his righteous acts upheld him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He put on righteousness like a breastplate,</p> <p class="poetry2">and a helmet of salvation on his head;</p> <p class="poetry2">he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,</p> <p class="poetry2">and wrapped himself in fury like a cloak.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So he will repay according to their action:</p> <p class="poetry2">Anger to his enemies, retribution to his foes;</p> <p class="poetry2">to the coastlands he will render their due.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his glories<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:19 So 1QIsaa; MT reads glory LXX reads his glorious name">w</a></span> from the rising of the sun;</p> <p class="poetry2">for he will come as a pent-up stream</p> <p class="poetry2">that the breath of the LORD drives along.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“And a Redeemer will come to Zion,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” says the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“As for me, this is my covenant with them,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:21 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; 1QIsab MT read them, but the reading contains a grammatical object error">x</a></span> says the LORD. “And<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:21 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX lack And">y</a></span> my Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, won’t depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="59:21 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read children, says the LORD, ">z</a></span> from now on and forever.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 59:1 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>ear</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 59:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>your lips have spoken lies, your tongue</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 59:4 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT reads <i>they rely</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 59:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT reads <i>to conceive</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 59:4 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab; MT reads <i>and to give birth</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 59:5 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT reads<i> They have hatched</i>; LXX reads <i>hatched</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 59:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read<i> an adder’s eggs</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 59:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>weave</i>, but with a different Heb. word<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 59:5 Lit. <i>a viper</i>; so 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX utilize feminine form<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 59:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>and violence</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 59:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads <i>darknesses</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 59:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>We grope</i> LXX reads <i>They grope</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 59:10 Or <i>among vigorous people</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 59:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>and we</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 59:11 So 1QIsaa; Not in MT LXX<br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 59:12 1QIsaa cf. LXX; MT reads<i> sin testifies</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>rebellion</i> LXX reads <i>we have sinned</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 59:13 Lit. <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>speaking</i> LXX reads <i>we have spoken</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 59:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>conceiving and uttering</i>; LXX reads <i>we have conceived and thought about</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 59:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>Justice is driven back</i> LXX reads <i>We withdrew justice</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 59:16 i.e. <i>the Messiah</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 59:19 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>glory</i> LXX reads <i>his glorious name</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 59:21 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; 1QIsab MT read <i>them</i>, but the reading contains a grammatical object error<br /><span class="fnb">y</span> 59:21 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX lack <i>And</i><br /><span class="fnb">z</span> 59:21 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read <i>children, says the</i> LORD, <br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>