Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

LIX. 1 Behold, the ’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear grown heavy, that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have been separating between you and your God, and your sins have hidden the Face from you, that he hear not.

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your ﬁngers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue will mutter wickedness.

4 There is none that sueth in righteousness, and none that pleadeth in truth; they trust in emptiness, and speak vanity; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

5 They hatch ’s eggs, and weave spider's webs; he that eateth of their eggs shall die, and that which is crushed, it hatcheth out into an adder.

6 Their webs shall not serve for a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the practice of violence is in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction are in their highways.

[*](13. ‘as to..' is perhaps equivalent to ‘from doing': cf. lvi. 2, c., and second part of this verse.)[*](1. Lit. ‘shortened from saving': some render, ‘too short to save' similarly the second clause.)[*](4. ‘sueth’ : or, ‘proclaimeth’: ‘in (or, with))[*](6. Or, ‘neither shall any’ (indef.) cover themselves,' c)

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8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have made them their paths crooked; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.

9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness,—we walk in

10 We grope along the wall like blind men, and we grope as men without eyes; we have stumbled at noonday as in the dusk; among the vigorous as the dead.

11 We all groan like bears, and moan piteously like doves; we wait for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, it is far off from us.

12 For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our rebellions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them:

13 Rebelling and denying the LORD, and drawing back from following our God: speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment is driven backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth hath stumbled in the broad place, and uprightness cannot enter.