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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 Smith's Literal 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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal 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<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/14.htm">Psalm 14:1–7</a>; <a href ="../psalms/53.htm">Psalm 53:1–6</a>; <a href ="../romans/3.htm#9">Romans 3:9–20</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Behold, the hand of Jehovah was not shortened from saving, and his ear heavy from hearing:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide the face from you from hearing.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They plundered vipers eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their webs shall not be for a garment, and they shall not be covered with their works: their works the works of vanity, and the work of violence in their hands.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And truth shall be lacking; and he departing from evil being plundered: and Jehovah will see, and it will be evil in his eyes, for no judgment.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he will see that not a man, and he will be astonished that none was supplicating: and his arm will save for him, and his justice it upheld him.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he will put on justice as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and be will put on robes of vengeance a garment, and he will clothe himself with zeal as an upper garment.<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>According to the works, accordingly he will recompense, wrath to his adversaries, recompense, to his enemies; to the islands will he requite recompense.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And from the west they shall fear the name of Jehovah, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in as a river, the spirit of Jehovah was lifted up against him.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And be redeeming came to Zion, and they turning away transgression in Jacob, says Jehovah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/59-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I, this my covenant with them, said Jehovah: my spirit which is upon thee, and my word which I put in thy mouth shall not depart from thy mouth, and from the mouth of thy seed, from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, from now and even forever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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