Isaiah 59

  1. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ears heavy, that it cannot hear.  (Num 11:23)
  2. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so 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 has muttered perversity.  (Ezek. 7:23)
  4. No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth.  They trust in empty words and speak lies;  (Jer. 7:4)  they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.  (Job 15:31;   Job 15:35;   Ps. 7:14)
  5. They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spiders web.  He who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
  6. Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.  (Job 8:14)
  7. Their feet run to evil (Rom. 3:15), and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;  (Prov. 6:18;   Is. 55:7)  wasting and destruction are in their paths.  (Prov. 1:16;   Rom. 3:16 & 17)
  8. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways (Is. 57:20&21); they have made themselves crooked paths (Prov. 2:15); whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
  9. Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but there is darkness!  For brightness, but we walk in blackness!  (Jer. 8:15)
  10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate places.  (Job 5:14;   Prov. 4:19)
  11. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.  (Job 29:14;   Eph. 6:14;   Eph. 6:17)
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