Isaiah 59:1–8

Separation from God

1 Behold, athe Lord’s hand is not so short

That it cannot save;

bNor is His ear so dull

That it cannot hear.

2 But your ainiquities have made a separation between you and your God,

And your sins have hidden His 1face from you so that He does bnot hear.

3 For your ahands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken bfalsehood,

Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4 aNo one sues righteously and bno one pleads 1honestly.

They ctrust in confusion and speak lies;

They dconceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

5 They hatch adders’ eggs and aweave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

6 Their webs will not become clothing,

Nor will they acover themselves with their works;

Their bworks are works of iniquity,

And an cact of violence is in their 1hands.

7 aTheir feet run to evil,

And they hasten to shed innocent blood;

bTheir thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,

Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

8 They do not know the away of peace,

And there is bno justice in their tracks;

They have made their paths crooked,

cWhoever treads on 1them does not know peace.