New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 59:1-15

1Behold, 1the Lord’s hand is not so short That it cannot save; 2Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.2But your 3wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His 4face from you so that He does 5not hear.3For your 6hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with wrongdoing; Your lips have spoken 7deceit, Your tongue mutters wickedness.4 8No one sues righteously and 9no one pleads 10honestly. They 11trust in confusion and speak lies; They 12conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.5They hatch vipers’ eggs and 13weave the spider’s web; The one who eats of their eggs dies, And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.6Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they 14cover themselves with their works; Their 15works are works of wrongdoing, And an 16act of violence is in their 17hands.7 18Their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed innocent blood; 19Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing, Devastation and destruction are in their paths.8They do not know the 20way of peace, And there is 21no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, 22Whoever walks on 23them does not know peace.

9Therefore 24justice is far from us, And righteousness does not reach us; We 25hope for light, but there is darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.10We 26grope for the wall like people who are blind, We grope like those who have no eyes. We 27stumble at midday as in the twilight; Among those who are healthy we are 28like the dead.11All of us growl like bears, And 29moan sadly like doves; We hope for 30justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.12For our 31wrongful acts have multiplied before You, And our 32sins have testified against us; For our wrongful acts are with us, And 33we know our wrongdoings:13 34Offending and 35denying the Lord, And turning away from our God, Speaking 36oppression and revolt, Conceiving and 37uttering lying words from the heart.14 38Justice is turned back, And 39righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter.15Truth is lacking, And one who turns aside from evil 40makes himself a prey. Now the Lord saw, And it was 41displeasing in His sight 42that there was no justice.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 59:1 Num 11:23; Is 50:2; Jer 32:17 ↩
2. Isaiah 59:1 Is 58:9; 65:24; Ezek 8:18 ↩
3. Isaiah 59:2 Is 1:15; 50:1 ↩
4. Isaiah 59:2 As in ancient versions; MT faces ↩
5. Isaiah 59:2 Is 58:4 ↩
6. Isaiah 59:3 Is 1:15, 21; Jer 2:30, 34; Ezek 7:23; Hos 4:2 ↩
7. Isaiah 59:3 Is 28:15; 30:9; 59:13 ↩
8. Isaiah 59:4 Is 5:7; 59:14 ↩
9. Isaiah 59:4 Is 59:14, 15 ↩
10. Isaiah 59:4 Lit in truth ↩
11. Isaiah 59:4 Is 30:12; Jer 7:4, 8 ↩
12. Isaiah 59:4 Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Is 33:11 ↩
13. Isaiah 59:5 Job 8:14 ↩
14. Isaiah 59:6 Is 28:20 ↩
15. Isaiah 59:6 Is 57:12; Jer 6:7 ↩
16. Isaiah 59:6 Is 58:4; Ezek 7:11 ↩
17. Isaiah 59:6 Lit palms ↩
18. Isaiah 59:7 Prov 1:16; 6:17; Rom 3:15-17 ↩
19. Isaiah 59:7 Is 65:2; 66:18; Mark 7:21, 22 ↩
20. Isaiah 59:8 Luke 1:79 ↩
21. Isaiah 59:8 Is 59:9, 11; Hos 4:1 ↩
22. Isaiah 59:8 Is 57:20, 21 ↩
23. Isaiah 59:8 Lit it ↩
24. Isaiah 59:9 Is 59:14 ↩
25. Isaiah 59:9 Is 5:30; 8:21, 22 ↩
26. Isaiah 59:10 Deut 28:29; Job 5:14 ↩
27. Isaiah 59:10 Is 8:14, 15; 28:13 ↩
28. Isaiah 59:10 Lam 3:6 ↩
29. Isaiah 59:11 Is 38:14; Ezek 7:16 ↩
30. Isaiah 59:11 Is 59:9, 14 ↩
31. Isaiah 59:12 Ezra 9:6; Is 58:1 ↩
32. Isaiah 59:12 Is 3:9; Jer 14:7; Hos 5:5 ↩
33. Isaiah 59:12 Lit our wrongdoings we know them ↩
34. Isaiah 59:13 Or Revolting against and ↩
35. Isaiah 59:13 Josh 24:27; Prov 30:9; Matt 10:33; Titus 1:16 ↩
36. Isaiah 59:13 Is 5:7; 30:12; Jer 9:3, 4 ↩
37. Isaiah 59:13 Is 59:3, 4; Mark 7:21, 22 ↩
38. Isaiah 59:14 Is 1:21; 5:7 ↩
39. Isaiah 59:14 Is 46:12; Hab 1:4 ↩
40. Isaiah 59:15 Is 5:23; 10:2; 29:21; 32:7 ↩
41. Isaiah 59:15 Or evil ↩
42. Isaiah 59:15 Is 1:21-23 ↩

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