Isaiah 59

Behold, ^athe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;

Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

²But ^byour iniquities have separated between you and your God,

And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

³For ^cyour hands ^dare defiled with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips ^ehave spoken lies,

Your tongue hath ^muttered perverseness.

⁴None calleth for justice, nor any ^fpleadeth for truth:

They trust ^gin vanity, and ^espeak lies;

^hiThey conceive mischief, and ⁱbring forth iniquity.

⁵They hatch cockatrice’ eggs,

And weave ^kthe spider’s web:

He that eateth of their eggs dieth,

And ^lthat which is crushed breaketh out into ^ma viper.

^6kTheir webs shall not become garments,

Neither shall they cover themselves with their works:

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is in their hands.

^7noTheir feet run to evil,

ⁿAnd they make haste to shed innocent blood:

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

^opWasting and destruction are in their paths.

^8oThe way of peace they know not;

And there is no judgment in their ^qgoings:

^rThey have made them crooked paths:

Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

⁹Therefore is judgment far from us,

Neither doth justice overtake us:

^sWe wait for light, but behold obscurity;

For brightness, but ^twe walk in darkness.

^10uWe grope for the wall like the blind,

And we grope as if we had no eyes:

We stumble ^uat noonday as in the night;

We are in desolate places as dead men.

¹¹We roar all like bears,

And ^vmourn sore like doves:

^sWe look for judgment, but there is none;

For salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,

And our sins testify against us:

For our transgressions are with us;

And as for our iniquities, ^wwe know them;

¹³In transgressing and lying against the Lord,

And ^xdeparting away from our God,

Speaking oppression and revolt,

Conceiving and ^yuttering ^zfrom the heart ^ewords of falsehood.

¹⁴And judgment is ^xturned away backward,

And justice standeth afar off:

For truth is fallen in the street,

And ^aequity cannot enter.

¹⁵Yea, truth ^bfaileth;

And he that departeth from evil ^cmaketh himself a prey:

And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him

That there was no judgment.

¹⁶And ^dhe saw that there was no man,

And ^ewondered that there was no ^fintercessor:

^gTherefore ^hhis arm brought salvation unto him;

And his righteousness, ^dit sustained him.

¹⁷For ⁱhe put on righteousness as a breastplate,

And a helmet of salvation upon his head;

And he put on the garments of ^kvengeance for clothing,

And was clad with zeal ⁱas a cloke.

^18lAccording to their deeds, accordingly ^mhe will repay,

ⁿFury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies;

To ^othe islands he will repay recompence.

^19pSo shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,

And his glory from the rising of the sun.

When the enemy shall come in ^qlike a flood,

The spirit of the Lord shall ^rlift up a standard against him.

²⁰And ^sthe redeemer shall come to Zion,

And unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

²¹As for me, ^tthis is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;

My spirit that is upon thee,

And ^umy words which I have put in thy mouth,

Shall not depart out of thy mouth,

Nor out of the mouth of thy seed,

Nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord,

From henceforth and for ever.

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