Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 59:12
12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us, for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
Isaiah 59:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
- New International Version (NIV)For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities:
- English Standard Version (ESV)For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
- New King James Version (NKJV)For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them:
Context of Isaiah 59:12
10We grope along the wall like the blind. We grope like those with no eyes. We stumble at noon as at twilight. We are like the dead in desolation. 11All of us growl like bears or moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us, for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: 13transgressing and denying Adonai, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart. 14Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
Read all of Isaiah 59Isaiah 59:12 word by word
כִּֽי־רַבּ֤וּ פְשָׁעֵ֙ינוּ֙ נֶגְדֶּ֔ךָ וְחַטֹּאותֵ֖ינוּ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֑נוּ כִּֽי־פְשָׁעֵ֣ינוּ אִתָּ֔נוּ וַעֲוֹנֹתֵ֖ינוּ יְדַֽעֲנֽוּם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 59:12
- Isaiah 1:4Oy , a sinful nation, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons dealing corruptly! They have abandoned Adonai. They have despised Israel’s Holy One. They have turned backwards.
- Ezra 9:6I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
- Jeremiah 3:2“Lift your eyes to the barren hills and see! Where have you not been violated? By the wayside you sat waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- Jeremiah 5:3Adonai, do Your eyes not look for faithfulness? You struck them, but they did not grieve. You disciplined them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone. They refused to return.
- Jeremiah 7:8Look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are empty.
- Ezekiel 5:6She has rebelled against My ordinances by doing wickedness worse than the nations, and against My decrees worse than the surrounding countries. For they have rejected My ordinances and as for My decrees, they have not walked in them.”
- Ezekiel 7:23“Forge the chain! For the land is full of bloodshed. The city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 8:8Then He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” When I had dug through the wall, there was a door.
- Ezekiel 16:51Moreover, Samaria did not commit even half of your sins. You multiplied your abominations beyond theirs. So you made your sisters seem righteous by all your disgusting things you have done.
- Ezekiel 22:2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? So explain to her all her abominations.
- Ezekiel 23:2“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
- Ezekiel 24:6Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, whose rust will not come off it! Draw it out piece by piece —no lot would fall for it.
- Hosea 4:2Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
- Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers!
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Yeshua and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God and hostile to all people,
- Jeremiah 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.
Commentaries on Isaiah 59:12
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Our sins testify against us - Hebrew, Answer against us.‘ The idea is, that their past lives had been so depraved that they became witnesses against them (compare the notes at Isaiah 3:9). We know them - We recognize them as our sins, and we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that we are transgressors.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are worse than the sins of others. And the sins of a nation bring public judgments, when not restrained by public justice. Men may murmur under calamities, but nothing will truly profit while they reject Christ and his gospel.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-14The people growl and moan with longing for redemption, finally coming to terms with their sinfulness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. (Da 9:5, &c.). thee ... us--antithesis. with us--that is, we are conscious of them (Job 12:3, Margin; Job 15:9). know--acknowledge they are our iniquities.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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