Isa 59:2-14, Rom 3:9-18 | ESV | 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 .

xCited from Ps. 10:7 (Gk.)

yCited from Prov. 1:16; ver. 15-17, cited from Isa. 59:7, 8

Isaiah 59:2-14

2 ^abut 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.
3 ^bFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 ^cNo one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
^dthey conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs;
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
6 ^eTheir webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
7 ^fTheir feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
8 The way of peace they do not know,
and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
^gno one who treads on them knows peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not overtake us;
^hwe hope for light, and behold, darkness,
and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 ⁱWe grope for the wall like the blind;
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
^jamong those in full vigor we are like dead men.
11 We all growl like bears;
^kwe moan and moan like doves;
^lwe hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
^mspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Judgment and Redemption

14 ⁿJustice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.

Romans 3:9-18

No One Is Righteous

9 What then? Are we Jews ^{▼▼Greek Are we} any better off? ^{▼▼Or at any disadvantage?} No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both ^qJews and ^rGreeks, are ^sunder sin, 10 as it is written:

^t“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 ^u“Their throat is ^van open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
^w“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 ^x“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 ^y“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and ^zthe way of peace they have not known.”
18 ^aa“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”