Isa 59:2-13 | NASB1995 | STEP | But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God , And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear .

Isaiah 59:2-13

2 But your ^ainiquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ^{▼▼ So versions; M.T. faces}face from you so that He does ^cnot hear.
3 For your ^dhands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken ^efalsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 ^fNo one sues righteously and ^gno one pleads ^{▼▼ Lit in truth}honestly.
They ⁱtrust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^jconceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs and ^kweave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
6 Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^lcover themselves with their works;
Their ^mworks are works of iniquity,
And an ⁿact of violence is in their ^{▼▼ Lit palms}hands.
7 ^pTheir feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
^qTheir thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
8 They do not know the ^rway of peace,
And there is ^sno justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^tWhoever treads on ^{▼▼ Lit it}them does not know peace.

A Confession of Wickedness

9 Therefore ^vjustice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us;
We ^whope for light, but behold, darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We ^xgrope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We ^ystumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are ^zlike dead men.
11 All of us growl like bears,
And ^aamoan sadly like doves;
We hope for ^abjustice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our ^actransgressions are multiplied before You,
And our ^adsins ^{▼▼ Lit answer}testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And ^{▼▼ Lit our iniquities we know them}we know our iniquities:
13 Transgressing and ^agdenying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking ^ahoppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and ^aiuttering from the heart lying words.