Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 59:2-13

2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

4No one calls for justice;no one pleads his case honestly.They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies;they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.5They hatch the eggs of vipersand weave a spider’s web.Whoever eats their eggs will die;crack one open, and a viper is hatched.6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing,and they cannot cover themselves with their works.Their deeds are sinful deeds,and acts of violence are in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil;they are swift to shed innocent blood.Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;ruin and destruction1 lie in their wake.8The way of peace they have not known,2and there is no justice in their tracks.They have turned them into crooked paths;no one who treads on them will know peace.

9Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not reach us.We hope for light, but there is darkness;for brightness, but we walk in gloom.10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall,groping like those without eyes.We stumble at midday as in the twilight;among the vigorous we are like the dead.11We all growl like bearsand moan like doves.We hope for justice, but find none,for salvation, but it is far from us.

12For our transgressions are multiplied before You,and our sins testify against us.Our transgressions are indeed with us,and we know our iniquities:13rebelling and denying the LORD,turning away from our God,speaking oppression and revolt,conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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1. Isaiah 59:7 LXX misery ↩
2. Isaiah 59:8 Cited in Romans 3:15–17 ↩

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