Isaiah 59

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1 Here, the Lord's hand is not shortened to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face [it] to you, not to hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers - lawlessness; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 No one calls for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity;
5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs --umret, and that which is crushed a viper --vypolzet.
6 Their webs become garments, and they will not be covered by his work; their works - works of iniquity, and violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts - thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their paths; how they are twisted, and no one goeth therein shall not know peace.

9 Therefore it is far from us judgment, and righteousness does not overtake us; We wait for light, but behold darkness, --ozareniya, and walk in darkness.
10 Grope for the wall like the blind, and, without eyes, we go groping; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, between the living - as dead.
eleven We all revem like bears, and mourn sore like doves; forward to the court, and not [his] --spaseniya, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know.
13 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.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter.
15 And he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; and his righteousness, and His righteousness sustained Him.
17 And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay his enemies - anger, his enemies - the place, the islands will pay tribute.
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord in the west, and His glory - at sunrise. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift it.
20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and the [sons] of Jacob that turn from transgression, says the LORD.
21 And 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, and from the mouth of your seed, and from the mouth of the descendants of thy seed, saith the Lord, from now on and forever.

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