God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 59:3
3Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers are stained with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.
Isaiah 59:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- New International Version (NIV)For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.
Context of Isaiah 59:3
1The Lord is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear. 2But your wrongs have separated you from your God, and your sins have made him hide his face so that he doesn’t hear you. Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers are stained with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things. 4No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. 5They hatch viper eggs and weave spiderwebs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched.
Read all of Isaiah 59Isaiah 59:3 word by word
כִּ֤י כַפֵּיכֶם֙ נְגֹאֲל֣וּ בַדָּ֔ם וְאֶצְבְּעוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם בֶּֽעָוֹ֑ן שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ דִּבְּרוּ־שֶׁ֔קֶר לְשׁוֹנְכֶ֖ם עַוְלָ֥ה תֶהְגֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For your handsכַּףkaph · palmH3709
- are defiledגָּאַלgâ'al · to defileH1351
- with bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
- and your fingersאֶצְבַּע'etsba‛ · fingerH676
- with iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
- your lipsשָׂפָהώâphâh ώepheth · lipsH8193
- have spokenדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
- liesשֶׁ֫קֶרsheqer · deceptionH8267
- your tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongueH3956
- hath mutteredהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
- perversenessעַוְלָה‛evel ‛âvel ‛avlâh ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · injusticeH5766
Cross-references for Isaiah 59:3
- Isaiah 1:15So when you stretch out your hands ⌞in prayer⌟, I will turn my eyes away from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are covered with blood.
- Jeremiah 2:30“I have punished your children without results. They didn’t respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.
- Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and your mind are set on nothing but dishonest profits. You kill innocent people and violently oppress your people.”
- Ezekiel 7:23“Get the chains ready! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with violence.
- Ezekiel 9:9He answered me, “The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible. The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that the Lord has abandoned the land and that he doesn’t see.
- Ezekiel 22:2“Will you judge, son of man? Will you judge the city of murderers? Then tell it about all the disgusting things that it has done.
- Ezekiel 35:6That is why, as I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I will let you be murdered. Murderers will pursue you. Since you don’t hate murdering people, murder will pursue you.
- Hosea 4:2There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break ⌞my laws⌟, and there is one murder after another.
- Micah 3:10You build Zion on bloodshed and Jerusalem on wickedness.
- Micah 7:2Faithful people are gone from the earth, and no one is decent. All people lie in ambush to commit murder. They trap each other with nets.
- Matthew 27:4He said, “I’ve sinned by betraying an innocent man.” They replied, “What do we care? That’s your problem.”
- Jeremiah 7:8“ ‘You are trusting the words of a saying. It’s a lie that cannot help you.
- Jeremiah 9:3They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows. Lies and dishonesty rule the land. They go from one evil thing to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 13:8“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Your predictions are false, and your visions are lies. That is why I’m against you, declares the Almighty Lord.
- Hosea 7:3“They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell.
- Micah 6:12The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully.
Commentaries on Isaiah 59:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Your tongue "And your tongue" - An ancient MS., and the Septuagint and Vulgate, add the conjunction.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For your hands are defiled with blood - The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; and in order to show the extent and depth of their depravity, he specifies the various members of the body - the hands, the fingers, the lips, the tongue, the feet as the agents by which people commit iniquity. See a similar argument on the subject of depravity in Romans 3:13-15, where a part of the description which the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8The people said the Lord could not rescue them, but the real issue was that they had not repented (Isaiah 59:20) and were still sinning.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. (Is 1:15; Ro 3:13-15). hands ... fingers--Not merely the "hands" perpetrate deeds of grosser enormity ("blood"), but the "fingers" commit more minute acts of "iniquity." lips ... tongue--The lips "speak" openly "lies," the tongue "mutters" malicious insinuations ("perverseness"; perverse misrepresentations of others) (Jr 6:28; 9:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 59
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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