Isa 59
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Behold, YHWH`s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear:
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but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid
his face from you, so that he will not hear.
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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
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None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak
lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch adders` eggs, and weave the spider`s web: he who eats of their eggs dies;
and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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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.
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
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The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have
made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
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Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look
for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we
stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
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We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is
none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
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transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth
is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
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Yea, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And YHWH
saw it, and it displeased him whom there was no justice.
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And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore
his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
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And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head;
and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
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According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, anger to his adversaries, recompense
to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
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So shall they fear the name of YHWH from the west, and his glory from the rising of
the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of YHWH drives.
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And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob,
says YHWH.
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And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says YHWH: my Spirit that is upon you,
and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor
out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed`s seed, says YHWH,
from henceforth and for ever.