Isaiah:59

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* Has the hand of the Lord no power to save ? or has he made his ear heavy , so that he should not hear ? * Nay , your iniquities separate between you and God , and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you , so as not to have mercy upon you . * For your hands are defiled with blood , and your fingers with sins ; your lips also have spoken iniquity , and your tongue meditates unrighteousness . * None speaks justly , neither is there true judgement : they trust in vanities , and speak empty words ; for they conceive trouble , and bring forth iniquity . * They have hatched asps ’ eggs , and weave a spider ’s web : and he that is going to eat of their eggs , having crushed an addled egg , has found also in it a basilisk . * Their web shall not become a garment , nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works ; for their works are works of iniquity . * And (note :)Ro strkjv @8:15-17 .(:note ) their feet run to wickedness , swift to shed blood ; their thoughts also are thoughts Gr . from murders ; but Alex . reads afronwn of murder ; destruction and misery are in their ways ; * and the way of peace they know not , neither is there judgement in their ways ; for their paths by which they go are crooked , and they know not peace . * Therefore has judgement departed from them , and righteousness shall not overtake them : while they waited for light , darkness came upon them ; while they waited for brightness , they walked in perplexity . * They shall feel for the wall as blind men , and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes : and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight ; they shall groan as dying men . * They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove : we have waited for judgement , and there is no salvation , it is gone far from us . * For our iniquity is great before thee , and our sins have risen up against us : for our iniquities are in us , and we know our unrighteous deeds . * We have sinned , and dealt falsely , and revolted from our God : we have spoken unrighteous words , and have been disobedient ; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words . * And we have turned judgement back , and righteousness has departed afar off : for truth is consumed in their ways , and they could not pass by a straight path . * And truth has been taken away , and they have turned aside their mind from understanding . And the Lord saw it , and it pleased him not that there was no judgement . * And he looked , and there was no man , and he observed , and there was none to help : so he defended them with his arm , and stablished them with his mercy . * And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate , and placed the helmet of salvation on his head ; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance , and with his cloak , * as one about to render a recompence , even reproach to his adversaries . * So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord , and they that come from the rising of the sun his glorious name : for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river , it shall come with fury . * And (note :)Ro strkjv @11:26 (:note ) the deliverer shall come for Sion ’s sake , and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob . * And this shall be my covenant with them , said the Lord ; My Spirit which is upon thee , and the words which I have put in thy mouth , shall never fail from thy mouth , nor from the mouth of thy seed , for the Lord has spoken it , henceforth and for ever .

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