Isaiah, Chapter 59, verses 2-13: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Isaiah, Chapter 59, verses 2, 2-13

² Behold, the LORD’S hand is not so short	2 Isa 1:15 Isa 50:1 Isa 58:4
² But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His^a So versions; M.T. facesface from you so that He does not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.	3 Isa 1:15 Isa 1:21 Jer 2:30 Jer 2:34 Eze 7:23 Hos 4:2 Isa 28:15 Isa 30:9 Isa 59:13
⁴ No one sues righteously and no one pleads^b Lit in truthhonestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.	4 Isa 5:7 Isa 59:14 Isa 59:14 Isa 59:15 Isa 30:12 Jer 7:4 Jer 7:8 Job 15:35 Psa 7:14 Isa 33:11
⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.	5 Job 8:14
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their^c Lit palmshands.	6 Isa 28:20 Isa 57:12 Jer 6:7 Isa 58:4 Eze 7:11
⁷ Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.	7 Pro 1:16 Pro 6:17 Rom 3:15-17 Isa 65:2 Isa 66:18 Mar 7:21 Mar 7:22
⁸ They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on^d Lit itthem does not know peace.	8 Luk 1:79 Isa 59:9 Isa 59:11 Hos 4:1 Isa 57:20 Isa 57:21
⁹ Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.	9 Isa 59:14 Isa 5:30 Isa 8:21 Isa 8:22
¹⁰ We grope along the wall like blind men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.	10 Deu 28:29 Job 5:14 Isa 8:14 Isa 8:15 Isa 28:13 Ljr 3:6
¹¹ All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.	11 Isa 38:14 Eze 7:16 Isa 59:9 Isa 59:14
¹² For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins^e Lit answertestify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And^f Lit our iniquities we know themwe know our iniquities:	12 Ezr 9:6 Isa 58:1 Isa 3:9 Jer 14:7 Hos 5:5
¹³ Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.	13 Jos 24:27 Pro 30:9 Mat 10:33 Tit 1:16 Isa 5:7 Isa 30:12 Jer 9:3 Jer 9:4 Isa 59:3 Isa 59:4 Mar 7:21 Mar 7:22


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