Isaiah 59:1–8

Separation from Yahweh

¹Behold, ^athe hand of Yahweh is not so short

That it cannot save;

^bNor is His ear so ¹dull

That it cannot hear.

²But 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.

³For your ^ahands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken a ^blie;

Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

^4aNo one calls in righteousness, and ^bno one seeks justice in truth.

They ^ctrust in ¹confusion and speak worthlessness;

They ^dconceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

⁵They break open vipers’ eggs and ^aweave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

⁶Their webs will not become a garment,

Nor will they ^acover themselves with their works;

Their ^bworks are works of wickedness,

And a ^cdeed of violence is in their ¹hands.

^7aTheir feet run to evil,

And they are quick to shed innocent blood;

^bTheir thoughts are thoughts of wickedness;

Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

⁸They 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.