Isaiah 59:2-13
2 But your awrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ▼
▼As in ancient versions; MT faces
face from you so that He does cnot hear. 3 For your dhands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with wrongdoing;
Your lips have spoken edeceit,
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 trouble and give birth to disaster.
5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and kweave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
6 Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they lcover themselves with their works;
Their mworks are works of wrongdoing,
And an nact of violence is in their ▼
▼Lit palms
hands. 7 pTheir feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
qTheir thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8 They do not know the rway of peace,
And there is sno justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
tWhoever walks on ▼
▼Lit it
them does not know peace. A Confession of Wickedness
9 Therefore vjustice is far from us,
And righteousness does not reach us;
We whope for light, but there is darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We xgrope for the wall like people who are blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We ystumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are zlike the dead.
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 acwrongful acts have multiplied before You,
And our adsins have testified against us;
For our wrongful acts are with us,
And ▼
▼Lit our wrongdoings we know them
we know our wrongdoings: 13 ▼
▼Or Revolting against and
Offending and agdenying the Lord, And turning away from our God,
Speaking ahoppression and revolt,
Conceiving and aiuttering lying words from the heart.
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