The Book of Isaiah (WEB)
59: 1Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't
hear: 59:2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden
his face from you, so that he will not hear. 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 59:4None sues in
righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 59:5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who
eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. 59:6Their webs shall not
become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to
shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their
paths. 59:8The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made
them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace. 59:9Therefore is justice far from
us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness,
but we walk in obscurity. 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have
no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
59:11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for
salvation, but it is far off from us. 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins
testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 59:14Justice is
turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and
uprightness can't enter. 59:15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a
prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice. 59:16He saw that there was no
man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness, it upheld him. 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of
salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as
a mantle. 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. 59:19So shall they fear the
name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a
rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives. 59:20A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to
those who turn from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. 59:21As for me, this is my covenant with
them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall
not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your
seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
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