Isaiah (KJV) 59
59 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and
your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth
for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the
spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their 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.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste
to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is
no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither
doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we
grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in
desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like
doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far
off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before
thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and
as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and
justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth
from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he
will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from
the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come
in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and
unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in
thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and
for ever.
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