Isa 59:2-13 | NASB2020 | STEP | But your wrongdoings have caused 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 ^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.