Isaiah 59:1–13

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

Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

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

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

3  For cyour hands dare defiled with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips ehave spoken lies,

Your tongue hath mmuttered perverseness.

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

They trust gin vanity, and espeak lies;

hiThey conceive mischief, and ibring forth iniquity.

5  They 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.

6  kTheir 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.

7  noTheir 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.

8  oThe 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.

9  Therefore is judgment far from us,

Neither doth justice overtake us:

sWe wait for light, but behold obscurity;

For brightness, but twe walk in darkness.

10  uWe 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.

11  We 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.

12  For 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;

13  In 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.