English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 59, verse 1 in Nlt Version

Isaiah 59 : 1 (NLT)

Listen! The LORD's arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.

Isaiah 59 : 2 (NLT)

It's your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.

Isaiah 59 : 3 (NLT)

Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your lips are full of lies, and your mouth spews corruption.

Isaiah 59 : 4 (NLT)

No one cares about being fair and honest. The people's lawsuits are based on lies. They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to sin.

Isaiah 59 : 5 (NLT)

They hatch deadly snakes and weave spiders' webs. Whoever falls into their webs will die, and there's danger even in getting near them.

Isaiah 59 : 6 (NLT)

Their webs can't be made into clothing, and nothing they do is productive. All their activity is filled with sin, and violence is their trademark.

Isaiah 59 : 7 (NLT)

Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder. They think only about sinning. Misery and destruction always follow them.

Isaiah 59 : 8 (NLT)

They don't know where to find peace or what it means to be just and good. They have mapped out crooked roads, and no one who follows them knows a moment's peace.

Isaiah 59 : 9 (NLT)

So there is no justice among us, and we know nothing about right living. We look for light but find only darkness. We look for bright skies but walk in gloom.

Isaiah 59 : 10 (NLT)

We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. Among the living, we are like the dead.

Isaiah 59 : 11 (NLT)

We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it never comes. We look for rescue, but it is far away from us.

Isaiah 59 : 12 (NLT)

For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.

Isaiah 59 : 13 (NLT)

We know we have rebelled and have denied the LORD. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.

Isaiah 59 : 14 (NLT)

Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed.

Isaiah 59 : 15 (NLT)

Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find there was no justice.

Isaiah 59 : 16 (NLT)

He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm, and his justice sustained him.

Isaiah 59 : 17 (NLT)

He put on righteousness as his body armor and placed the helmet of salvation on his head. He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.

Isaiah 59 : 18 (NLT)

He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds. His fury will fall on his foes. He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 59 : 19 (NLT)

In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD; in the east, they will glorify him. For he will come like a raging flood tide driven by the breath of the LORD.

Isaiah 59 : 20 (NLT)

"The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem to buy back those in Israel who have turned from their sins," says the LORD.

Isaiah 59 : 21 (NLT)

"And this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children's children forever. I, the LORD, have spoken!