Isaiah 59 : 1 (RV)
Behold, the LORD�S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isaiah 59 : 2 (RV)
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59 : 3 (RV)
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
Isaiah 59 : 4 (RV)
None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 59 : 5 (RV)
They hatch basilisks� eggs, and weave the spider�s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isaiah 59 : 6 (RV)
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isaiah 59 : 7 (RV)
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation ard destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59 : 8 (RV)
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
Isaiah 59 : 9 (RV)
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Isaiah 59 : 10 (RV)
We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
Isaiah 59 : 11 (RV)
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isaiah 59 : 12 (RV)
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:
Isaiah 59 : 13 (RV)
in transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59 : 14 (RV)
And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
Isaiah 59 : 15 (RV)
Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isaiah 59 : 16 (RV)
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
Isaiah 59 : 17 (RV)
And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isaiah 59 : 18 (RV)
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Isaiah 59 : 19 (RV)
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun: for he shall come as a rushing stream, which the breath of the LORD driveth.
Isaiah 59 : 20 (RV)
And a redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 59 : 21 (RV)
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD: my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed�s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
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