ISA-59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it

cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

ISA-59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your

God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will

not hear.

ISA-59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers

with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath

muttered perverseness.

ISA-59:4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth:

they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief,

and bring forth iniquity.

ISA-59:5 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.

ISA-59:6 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.

ISA-59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed

innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity;

wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

ISA-59:8 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.

ISA-59:9 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.

ISA-59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as

if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; [we

are] in desolate places as dead [men].

ISA-59:11 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.

ISA-59:12 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;

ISA-59:13 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.

ISA-59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice

standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity

cannot enter.

ISA-59:15 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.

ISA-59:16 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.

ISA-59:17 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 cloak.

ISA-59:18 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay,

fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the

islands he will repay recompense.

ISA-59:19 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.

ISA-59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them

that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

ISA-59:21 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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