Isaiah 59:1-7 ▼

1 Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?

2 Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you .

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

4 None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words ; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

5 They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

6 Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

7 And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;