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Isaiah 59 📜 📕 ↷
Sin Separates Us from God
1 BEHOLD the hand of our Lord is not abridged that he can not save, neither is his ear made heavy that it can not hear.📜💬📚
2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he would not hear.📜💬📚
3 For your hands are polluted with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lie, and your tongue speaketh iniquity.📜💬📚
4 There is none that doth invocate justice, neither is there any that judgeth truly: but they trust in things of nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.📜💬📚
5 They have broken the eggs of asps, & have woven the spider's webs: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is nourished, shall be hatched into a cockatrice.📜💬📚
6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they be covered with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.📜💬📚
7 Their feet run to evil, & hasten to shed innocent blood: their cogitations are unprofitable cogitations: waste & destruction are in their ways.📜💬📚
8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgement in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them: every one that treadeth in them, knoweth not peace.📜💬📚
9 For this cause is judgement far from us, & justice shall not apprehend us. We expected light, and behold darkness: brightness, & we have walked in darkness.📜💬📚
10 We have groped as blind men for the wall, and as without eyes have feeled: we have stumbled at noon day as in darkness, in dark places as the dead.📜💬📚
11 We all shall roar as bears, and as mourning doves we shall lament. We have expected judgement, and there is none: salvation, and it is far from us.📜💬📚
12 For our iniquities are multiplied before thee and our sins have answered to us: because our wicked doings are with us, & our iniquities we have known,📜💬📚
13 to sin and lie against our Lord: and we were turned away so that we went not after our God, that we spake calumny and transgression: we conceived, and spake from the heart words of lying.📜💬📚
14 And judgement was turned backward, and justice stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not enter in.📜💬📚
15 And truth grew into oblivion: and he that departed from evil, lay open to the prey: and our Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgement.📜💬📚
16 And he saw that there is not a man: & he was astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm saved to himself, and his justice it-self confirmed him.📜💬📚
17 He is clothed with justice as with a breastplate, and is an helmet of salvation on his head: he is clothed with garments of revenge, and is covered as with a mantle of zeal.📜💬📚
Covenant of the Redeemer
18 As unto revenge as it were unto retribution of indignation to his adversaries, and recompense to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.📜💬📚
19 And they of the West shall fear the name of our Lord: and they of the rising of the sun, his glory: when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of our Lord driveth:📜💬📚
20 and there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them, that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
21 This is my covenant with them, saith our Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, and out of the mouth of thy seed, & out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith our Lord, from this present and for ever.📜💬📚
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