Isaiah 59:3

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, Adonai’s hand is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. 2Rather, your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God. 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 lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4No one sues justly, and none pleads a case 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— whoever eats their eggs dies; crack one open, a viper breaks out.

Isaiah 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 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”
• Jeremiah 2:30“In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”
• Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and your heart are only on your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and committing extortion and fraud.”
• Ezekiel 7:23“Forge the chain! For the land is full of bloodshed. The city is full of violence.
• Ezekiel 9:9He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’
• Ezekiel 22:2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? So explain to her all her abominations.
• Ezekiel 35:6therefore, as I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I will destine you for blood, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
• Hosea 4:2Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
• Micah 3:10who build up Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with injustice.
• Micah 7:2The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
• Matthew 27:4saying, “I’ve sinned, betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What’s that to us? You see to it yourself!”
• Jeremiah 7:8Look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are empty.
• Jeremiah 9:3Beware, everyone, of your neighbor! Don’t even trust a brother. For every brother grabs like Jacob and every neighbor spreads slander.
• Ezekiel 13:8Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you have spoken falsely and prophesied lies, therefore behold, I am against you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
• Hosea 7:3They gladden the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.
• Micah 6:12For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

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

Topics related to Isaiah 59:3

• Falsehood
• Homicide
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Cloke
• Grope
• Heavy
• Iniquity
• Mutter
• Revolt
• Defile; Defilement
• Isaiah
• Perverse
• Saviour

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