Isaiah:59
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Behold ,
the LORD '
S hand is not shortened ,
that it cannot save ;
neither his ear heavy ,
that it cannot hear :
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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God ,
and your sins have hid his face from you ,
that he will not hear .
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For your hands are defiled with blood ,
and your fingers with iniquity ;
your lips have spoken lies ,
your tongue hath muttered perverseness .
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None calleth for justice ,
nor any pleadeth for truth :
they trust in vanity ,
and speak lies ;
they conceive mischief ,
and bring forth iniquity .
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They hatch cockatrice '
eggs ,
and weave the spider '
s web :
he that eateth of their eggs dieth ,
and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper .
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Their webs shall not become garments ,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works :
their works are works of iniquity ,
and the act of violence is in their hands .
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Their feet run to evil ,
and they make haste to shed innocent blood :
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity ;
wasting and destruction are in their paths .
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The way of peace they know not ;
and there is no judgment in their goings :
they have made them crooked paths :
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace .
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Therefore is judgment far from us ,
neither doth justice overtake us :
we wait for light ,
but behold obscurity ;
for brightness ,
but we walk in darkness .
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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 desolate places as dead men .
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We roar all like bears ,
and mourn sore like doves :
we look for judgment ,
but there is none ;
for salvation ,
but it is far off from us .
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For our transgressions are multiplied before thee ,
and our sins testify against us :
for our transgressions are with us ;
and as for our iniquities ,
we know them ;
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In transgressing and lying against the LORD ,
and departing away from our God ,
speaking oppression and revolt ,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood .
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And judgment is turned away backward ,
and justice standeth afar off :
for truth is fallen in the street ,
and equity cannot enter .
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Yea ,
truth faileth ;
and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey :
and the LORD saw it ,
and it displeased him that there was no judgment .
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And he saw that there was no man ,
and wondered that there was no intercessor :
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him ;
and his righteousness ,
it sustained him .
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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate ,
and an helmet of salvation upon his head ;
and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing ,
and was clad with zeal as a cloke .
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According to their deeds ,
accordingly he will repay ,
fury to his adversaries ,
recompence to his enemies ;
to the islands he will repay recompence .
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So shall they 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 lift up a standard against him .
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And the Redeemer shall come to Zion ,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob ,
saith the LORD .
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As for me ,
this is my covenant with them ,
saith the LORD ;
My spirit that is upon thee ,
and my words which I have put in thy mouth ,
shall not depart out of thy mouth ,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed ,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed '
s seed ,
saith the LORD ,
from henceforth and for ever .