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| The Book of Isaiah 59 |
| The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
| Isaiah 59:1 | Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing. |
| Isaiah 59:2 | But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you from hearing. |
| Isaiah 59:3 | For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. |
| Isaiah 59:4 | There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. |
| Isaiah 59:5 | Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. |
| Isaiah 59:6 | Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works [are] works of iniquity, And a deed of violence [is] in their hands. |
| Isaiah 59:7 | Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction [are] in their highways. |
| Isaiah 59:8 | A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace. |
| Isaiah 59:9 | Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness in thick darkness we go, |
| Isaiah 59:10 | We feel like the blind [for] the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead. |
| Isaiah 59:11 | We make a noise as bears all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation it hath been far from us. |
| Isaiah 59:12 | For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions [are] with us, And our iniquities we have known them. |
| Isaiah 59:13 | Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood. |
| Isaiah 59:14 | And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, |
| Isaiah 59:15 | And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment. |
| Isaiah 59:16 | And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness it sustained Him. |
| Isaiah 59:17 | And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal. |
| Isaiah 59:18 | According to deeds so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, [their] deed to His enemies, To the isles [their] deed He repayeth. |
| Isaiah 59:19 | And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him. |
| Isaiah 59:20 | And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah. |
| Isaiah 59:21 | And I this [is] My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that [is] on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed`s seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age! |
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