Isaiah 59

Revised Geneva Translation

59 Behold, the LORD’s Hand is not shortened, that it cannot save. Nor is His Ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

² But your iniquities have put separation between you and your God. And your sins have hidden His Face from you, so 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 has murmured iniquity.

⁴ No man calls for justice. No man contends for truth. They trust in vanity and speak vain things. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

⁵ They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs, dies. And that which is stepped on breaks out into a serpent.

⁶ Their webs shall be no garment. Nor shall they cover themselves with their labors. Their works are works of iniquity. And the work of cruelty is in their hands.

⁷ Their feet turn to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are wicked thoughts. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

⁸ The way of peace they do not know. And there is no justice in their ways. They have made themselves crooked paths. Whoever goes in there shall not know peace.

⁹ Therefore judgment is far from us. Nor does justice come near to us. We wait for light, but lo, it is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as one without eyes. We stumble at the noon day as in the twilight, in solitary places, as dead men.

¹¹ We roar all like bears and mourn like doves. We look for judgment, but there is none, for health, but it is far from us.

¹² For our trespasses are many before You. And our sins testify against us. For our trespasses are with us. And we know our iniquities

¹³ in trespassing and lying against the LORD. And we have departed away from our God, have spoken of cruelty and rebellion, conceiving and uttering false matters out of the heart.

¹⁴ Therefore, judgment has turned backward. And justice stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and truth cannot enter.

¹⁵ Yea, truth fails. And he who refrains from evil makes himself a prey. And when the LORD saw it, it displeased Him that there was no judgment.

¹⁶ And when He saw that there was no man, He wondered that none would offer himself. Therefore, His Arm saved it, and His righteousness itself sustained it.

¹⁷ For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a 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 As a recompense, to requite the fury of the adversaries (a recompense to His enemies), He will fully repay the islands.

¹⁹ So shall they fear the Name of the LORD from the West, and His Glory from the rising of the Sun. For the enemy shall come like a flood. But the Spirit of the LORD shall chase him away.

²⁰ “And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from iniquity in Jacob,” says the LORD.

²¹ “And I will make this My Covenant with them,” says the LORD, “My Spirit, Who is upon you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of the seed of your seed,” says the LORD, “from henceforth, even forever.”