Isaiah 59:1-15 ▼

1 Behold, the hand of YHWH is not shortened from saving, and his ear is not heavy from hearing.

2 For but your? iniquities that have been causing separation for you? from your? God, and your? sins have hidden the Face from you?, away from hearing.

3 For your? hands are defiled with blood, and your? fingers with iniquity; your? lips have spoken falsehood; your? tongue mutters injustice.

4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case in truth, trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, conceiving trouble, and birthing iniquity.

5 They have hatched eggs of a viper, and they weave the web of a spider; the one eating of their eggs dies, and from the crushed one breaks out a viper!

6 Their webs will not become garments, and they cannot cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and a deed of violence is in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity—ruin and destruction are in their paths!

8 The way of peace they have not known, and no justice is in their tracks; their paths they have made crooked for themselves—everyone treading on it has not known peace.

9 Upon thus justice is far from us and righteousness does not reach us; we wait for the light, and behold, darkness; for brightness—in the darkness we walk.

10 We grope like the blind along the wall, and as without eyes we grope; we stumble in the noonday as in the twilight, among the strong as the dead.

11 We growl like bears—all of us, and we moan mournfully like doves; we wait for justice, and there is none; for salvation—it is far from us.

12 For our transgressions are many before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities, and we know:

13 Breaking faith and being false with YHWH, and removing ourselves from following our God; speaking words of oppression and revolt, conceiving and musing from the heart words of deception.

14 And justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has stumbled in the plaza, and straightness is not able to enter.

15 And the truth is missing, and the one turning away from evil makes himself plunder. And YHWH saw it, and it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice.