Isa 59 | EngLXX | STEP | Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he shouldnot hear?

Isaiah 59

1 Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he shouldnot hear? 2 Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turnedawayhis face from you, so as not to have mercyupon you. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also havespoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness. 4 None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speakemptywords; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat oftheir eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk. 6 Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with theirworks; for their works are works of iniquity. 7 And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughtsof murder; destruction and misery are in their ways; 8 and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for theirpaths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace. 9 Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them:while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked inperplexity. 10 They shall feel for the wall as blindmen, and shall feelfor it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groanas dying men. 11 They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, andthere is no salvation, it is gone far from us. 12 For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against us: for ouriniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds. 13 We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteouswords, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words. 14 And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truthis consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straightpath. 15 And truth has been taken away, and they have turned asidetheir mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was nojudgment. 16 And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: sohe defended them with his arm, and establishedthem withhis mercy. 17 And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation onhis head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak, 18 as one about to render a recompence,even reproach to his adversaries. 19 So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and theythat come from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall comeas a mighty river, it shall come with fury. 20 And the deliverer shall come for Sion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 21 And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you,and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth ofyour seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.