Isaiah 59

Rampant Transgression

1Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short to save,[#Literally “from saving”]

2Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God,[#Literally “dividers”]

3For your hands are defiled with blood,

Your lips have spoken lies,

4There is nobody who pleads with justice,[#Literally “calling in”]

They rely on nothing

They conceive trouble

5they hatch viper eggs,

One who eats their eggs dies,

6Their webs cannot become clothing,

Their works are works of iniquity,

7Their feet run to evil,

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

8They do not know the way of peace,

They have made their paths crooked for themselves;

9Therefore justice is far from us,

We wait for light, but look! there is darkness;

10We grope like the blind along a wall,

We stumble at noon as in the twilight;

11We all groan like bears,

We wait for justice, but there is none;

12For our transgressions are numerous before you,

Indeed, our transgressions are with us,

13transgressing and denying Yahweh,

speaking oppression and falsehood,

14And justice is pushed back,

for truth stumbles in the public square,

15and truth is missing,

And Yahweh saw,

16And he saw that there was no man,

so his arm came to assist him,

17And he put on righteousness like a breastplate,

and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,

18According to deeds, so he will repay;

19So they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west,[#Or “And”]

for he will come like a narrow stream;

20“And a redeemer will come to Zion,

declares Yahweh.

21“And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh:

my spirit that is upon you,

shall not depart from your mouth,

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