New American Standard Bible 1995
Isaiah 59:3
3For your 1hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken 2falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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
1Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. 2But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness. 4No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
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
- 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
- falsehoodשֶׁ֫קֶרsheqer · deceptionH8267
- Your tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongueH3956
- muttersהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
Cross-references for Isaiah 59:3
- Isaiah 1:15So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Jeremiah 2:30“In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion.”
- Ezekiel 7:23‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 9:9Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’
- Ezekiel 22:2“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
- Ezekiel 35:6therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
- Hosea 4:2There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
- Micah 3:10Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice.
- Micah 7:2The godly person has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.
- Matthew 27:4saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!”
- Jeremiah 7:8“Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongue like their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 13:8Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.
- Hosea 7:3With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.
- Micah 6:12For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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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