Isaiah:59

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* Behold , the LORD 's hand is not shortened so that it cannot save , nor is His ear heavy so that it cannot hear . * But your iniquities have come between you and your God , and your sins have hidden [His ] face from you , from hearing . * For your hands are defiled with blood , and your fingers with iniquity ; your lips have spoken lies , your tongue has muttered perverseness . * None calls for justice , nor does anyone plead for truth ; they trust in vanity and speak lies . They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity . * They hatch adders ' eggs and weave the spider 's web ; he who eats their eggs dies , and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper . * Their webs shall not become clothing , nor shall they cover themselves with their works ; their works [are ] works of iniquity , and the act of violence [is ] in their hands . * Their feet run to evil , and they make haste to shed innocent blood ; their thoughts [are ] thoughts of iniquity ; wasting and ruin [are ] in their paths . * They did not know the way of peace , and [there is ] no judgment in their paths . They have made crooked paths for themselves ; whoever goes in them shall not know peace . * Therefore judgment is far from us ; nor does justice overtake us . We wait for light , but behold , dimness ; for brightness , [but ] we walk in darkness . * We grope [for ] the wall like the blind , and we grope as if [we had ] no eyes . We stumble at noonday as in the night ; [we are ] in deserted places like dead men . * We all roar like bears , and mourn grievously like doves ; we look for judgment , but none ; for salvation , but it is far off from us . * For our transgressions [are ] multiplied before You , and our sins testify against us . For our transgressions are with us ; and [as for ] our iniquities , we know them ; * in transgressing and lying against the LORD , and going away from our God , talking cruelty and revolt , conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood . * And justice is driven back , and justice stands afar off ; for truth has fallen in the street , and right cannot enter . * Yea , truth fails ; and he [who ] departs from evil makes himself a prey . And the LORD saw , and it displeased Him that [there was ] no judgment . * And He saw that [there was ] no man , and wondered that there was no intercessor . Therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him ; and His righteousness sustained Him . * For He put on righteousness like a breastplate , and a helmet of salvation on His head . And He put on the garments of vengeance [for ] clothing , and was covered with zeal like a cloak . * According to [their ] deeds , accordingly He will repay ; fury to His foes , deed for deed to His enemies . He will repay their deeds to the coastlands . * So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west , and His glory from the rising of the sun . When the enemy shall come in like a flood , the Spirit of the LORD shall make him flee . * And the Redeemer shall come to Zion , and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob , says the LORD . * As for Me , this [is ] My covenant with them , says the LORD ; My spirit that is on 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 your seed 's seed , says the LORD , from now on and forever .

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