12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
    and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Judgment and Redemption

14 (B)Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
15 Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him[a]
    that there was no justice.
16 (C)He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no one to intercede;
then his own arm brought him salvation,
    and his righteousness upheld him.
17 (D)He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
    and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
    and wrapped himself in (E)zeal as a cloak.
18 (F)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    (G)to the coastlands he will render repayment.
19 (H)So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west,
    and his glory from the rising of the sun;
(I)for he will come like a rushing stream,[b]
    which the wind of the Lord drives.

20 (J)“And (K)a Redeemer will come to Zion,
    to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes
  2. Isaiah 59:19 Hebrew a narrow river

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