Isaiah 59:1–8

The Lord Will Turn His People from Wrongdoing

¹The Lord is not too weak to save 

or his ear too deaf to hear. 

²But your wrongs have separated you from your God, 

and your sins have made him hide his face 

so that he doesn’t hear you. 

³Your hands are stained with blood, 

and your fingers are stained with sin. 

You speak lies, 

and you mutter wicked things. 

⁴No one calls for justice, 

and no one pleads his case truthfully. 

People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. 

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. 

⁵They hatch viper eggs 

and weave spiderwebs. 

Those who eat their eggs will die. 

When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched. 

⁶Their webs can’t be used for clothes, 

nor can they cover themselves with their works. 

Their works are evil. 

Their hands have committed acts of violence. 

⁷Their feet run to do evil. 

They hurry to shed innocent blood. 

Their plans are evil. 

Ruin and destruction are on their highways. 

⁸They don’t know the way of peace. 

There’s no justice on their highways. 

They’ve made their paths crooked. 

Whoever walks on them will never know peace.