KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 59
Thec ondemning nature of sin. The sins of the Jews. Calamity is for sin. The covenant of the Redeemer.
1Behold, the hand of Jehovah is not shortened from saving, and not is His ear heavy from hearing.
2But your iniquities are coming between you and your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
3For your palms are defiled by blood; yea, your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken falsehood; your tongue murmurs perverseness.
4No one calls for righteousness, and no one judges with truth. Trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies; and that which is crushed hatches out a viper.
6Their webs shall not become clothing, and they shall not cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their palms.
7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to pour out innocent blood. Thoughts of iniquity are their thoughts; wasting and ruin are in their ways.
8They do not know the way of peace; and no judgment is in their tracks. They have made crooked paths for themselves; everyone going in them does not know peace.
9On account of this, judgment is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloominess.
10We grope for the wall like the blind ones, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, in desolate places like ones dying.
11We all of us roar like bears, and moaning we moan like doves. We look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them;
13transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from after our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart.
14And justce is driven back; and righteousness stands far off; for truth stumbles in the plaza, and straightness is not able to enter.
15And the truth is lacking; and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw; and it was evil in His eyes, that there was no justice.
16And He saw that there was no man, and He was astonished that there was no intercessor. And His own arm saved for Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.
17For He put on righteousness like body armor, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on robes of vengeance as clothing; and He put on zeal like a mantle.
18According to works, so He will repay; fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; He will complete recompense to the isles.
19And they shall fear Jehovah's name from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the foe comes like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah shall cause him to flee.
20And the Redeemer comes to Zion, and to those in Jacob who turn back from their transgression, a statement of Jehovah.
21As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says Jehovah: My Spirit who is on You, and My words which I have put in Your mouth, shall not depart out of Your mouth, or out of the mouth of Your seed, or out of the mouth of Your seed's seed, from now and till forever, says Jehovah.
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