Verse 3
Isaiah 59:3
World English Bible
3
For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies.
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י כַפֵּי/כֶם֙ נְגֹאֲל֣וּ בַ/דָּ֔ם וְ/אֶצְבְּעוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם בֶּֽ/עָוֺ֑ן שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ דִּבְּרוּ שֶׁ֔קֶר לְשׁוֹנְ/כֶ֖ם עַוְלָ֥ה תֶהְגֶּֽה
English Translation
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood; your tongue utters wickedness.
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Chapter 59 Context
1
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
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2
But your iniquities have separated you and your God (Elohim),
and your sins have hidden his face fro...
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3
For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies.
Y...
4
No one sues in righteousness,
and no one pleads in truth.
They trust in vanity,
and speak lies.
They...
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5
They hatch adders’ eggs,
and weave the spider’s web.
He who eats of their eggs dies;
and that which...
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6
Their webs won’t become garments.
They won’t cover themselves with their works.
Their works are work...
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7
Their feet run to evil,
and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniqui...
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8
They don’t know the way of peace;
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked path...
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9
Therefore is justice far from us,
and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.
We look for light, but see...
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10
We grope for the wall like the blind.
Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.
We stumble at noon as...
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11
We all roar like bears,
and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none;
for sa...
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12
For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgres...
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13
transgressing and denying Yahweh,
and turning away from following our God (Elohim),
speaking oppress...
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14
Justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has fallen in the stre...
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15
Yes, truth is lacking;
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Yahweh saw it,
and it disp...
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16
He saw that there was no man,
and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brou...
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17
He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head.
He put on garments...
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18
According to their deeds,
he will repay as appropriate,
wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his...
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19
So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he wil...
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20
“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
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21
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words whic...
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