Isaiah 59 NKJV

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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/59.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Separated from God</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-59-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Behold, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s hand is not shortened,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1">That it cannot save;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1">Nor His ear heavy,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1">That it cannot hear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But your iniquities have separated you from your God;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-2">And your sins have hidden <i>His</i> face from you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-2">So that He will not hear.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For your hands are defiled with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>blood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3">And your fingers with iniquity;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3">Your lips have spoken lies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3">Your tongue has muttered perversity.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>No one calls for justice,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4">Nor does <i>any</i> plead for truth.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4">They trust in empty words and speak lies;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4">They conceive <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>evil and bring forth iniquity.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-5">He who eats of their eggs dies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-5">And <i>from</i> that which is crushed a viper breaks out.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their webs will not become garments,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6">Nor will they cover themselves with their works;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6">Their works <i>are</i> works of iniquity,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6">And the act of violence <i>is</i> in their hands.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their feet run to evil,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7">And they make haste to shed innocent blood;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7">Their thoughts <i>are</i> thoughts of iniquity;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7">Wasting and destruction <i>are</i> in their paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The way of peace they have not known,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8">And <i>there is</i> no justice in their ways;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8">They have made themselves crooked paths;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8">Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.</span></p></div> <h3> Sin Confessed</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-59-9"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore justice is far from us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9">Nor does righteousness overtake us;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9">We look for light, but there is darkness!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9">For brightness, <i>but</i> we walk in blackness!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We grope for the wall like the blind,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10">And we grope as if <i>we had</i> no eyes;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10">We stumble at noonday as at twilight;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10"><i>We are</i> as dead <i>men</i> in desolate places.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We all growl like bears,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11">And moan sadly like doves;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11">We look for justice, but <i>there is</i> none;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11">For salvation, <i>but</i> it is far from us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For our transgressions are multiplied before You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12">And our sins testify against us;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12">For our transgressions <i>are</i> with us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12">And <i>as for</i> our iniquities, we know them:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In transgressing and lying against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13">And departing from our God,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13">Speaking oppression and revolt,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13">Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Justice is turned back,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14">And righteousness stands afar off;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14">For truth is fallen in the street,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14">And equity cannot enter.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So truth fails,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-15">And he <i>who</i> departs from evil makes himself a prey.</span></p></div><h3><span class="text Isa-59-15">The Redeemer of Zion</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-59-15">Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> saw <i>it,</i> and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>it displeased Him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-15">That <i>there was</i> no justice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He saw that <i>there was</i> no man,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16">And wondered that <i>there was</i> no intercessor;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16">Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16">And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17">And a helmet of salvation on His head;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17">He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17">And was clad with zeal as a cloak.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>According to <i>their</i> deeds, accordingly He will repay,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18">Fury to His adversaries,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18">Recompense to His enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18">The coastlands He will fully repay.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So shall they fear</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19">The name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> from the west,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19">And His glory from the rising of the sun;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19">When the enemy comes in like a flood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19">The Spirit of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will lift up a standard against him.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“The Redeemer will come to Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-20">And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-20">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/59-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“As for Me,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, “this <i>is</i> My covenant with them: My Spirit who <i>is</i> upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, “from this time and forevermore.”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18804a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 59:3">Isaiah 59:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>bloodshed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18805b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 59:4">Isaiah 59:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>trouble</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18816c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 59:15">Isaiah 59:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>it was evil in His eyes</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div 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