Isaiah 59

LIX

¹Behold! the hand of Jehovah is not shortened, that it cannot save;

Neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

²But it is your iniquities that have made a separation between you and your God;

And your sins have caused his face to be hidden from you, that he will not hear.

³For your hands are polluted with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips speak falsehood,

And your tongue muttereth wickedness.

⁴None pronounceth a verdict in justice,

Neither doth any one judge in truth:

Trusting in vanity, and speaking lies,

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁵They hatch the eggs of the basilisk,

And weave the webs of the spider;

He that eateth of their eggs dieth,

And out of that which is crushed a viper breaketh forth.

⁶Their webs shall not become garments,

Neither shall men cover themselves with their works:

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the deed of violence is in their hands.

⁷Their feet run to evil,

And they hasten to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,

Ruin and devastation are in their paths.

⁸The way of peace they know not,

And there is no judgment in their course;

Their paths they have made to themselves crooked,

Whoso walketh in them, shall not know peace.

⁹Therefore is judgment far distant from us,

Neither doth justice reach us;

We look for light, but behold obscurity;

For brightness, but we walk in darkness.

¹⁰We grope like the blind for the wall,

And we grope as those who have no eyes;

We stumble at mid-day as if it were dark,

We are in the midst of plenty, like unto the dead.

¹¹We roar like bears, every one of us;

And moan continually like doves.

We 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 at for our iniquities, we know them.

¹³We have transgressed; and we have denied Jehovah ;

We have also departed from our God,

Speaking oppression and revolt,

Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward,

And justice standeth aloof;

For truth is fallen in the street,

And equity cannot enter.

¹⁵Yea, truth is wanted,

And he that departed from evil maketh himself a

And Jehovah saw it,

And it displeased Him that there was no judgment.

¹⁶And He saw that there was no man,

And wondered that there was no intercessor;

Therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him;

And his righteousness, it sustained him.

¹⁷And He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

And the helmet of salvation was on his head;

And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing;

And clad Himself with zeal as with a mantle.

¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, prey:

Fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies;

To the islands a recompense will He repay.

¹⁹And they from the west shall fear the name of Jehovah ,

And they from the rising of the sun his glory.

When the enemy shall come in like a river,

The Spirit of Jehovah shall put him to flight.

²⁰And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,

And unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob;

Saith Jehovah .

²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah :

My Spirit which is upon thee,

And my words which I have put in thy mouth;

They shall not depart from thy mouth,

Nor from the mouth of thy seed,

Nor from the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah ,

From henceforth and for ever.