Chapter 59
1: Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2: But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3: For your
hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered perverseness.
4: None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust
in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5: They hatch
cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
6: Their 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: Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8: The way of peace
they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
9: Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday
as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11: We roar all like bears, and
mourn sore like doves: we 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, we know them;
13: In
transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14: And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15: Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw
it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16: And he saw that there was no
man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17: For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an
helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with
zeal as a cloke.
18: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
19: So
shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the
enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20: And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith
the LORD.
21: As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is
upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
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