Isaiah 59
59
LIX
1Behold! the hand of Jehovah is not shortened, that it cannot save;
Neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2But it is your iniquities that have made a separation between you and your God;
And your sins have caused his face to be hidden from you, that he will not hear.
3For your hands are polluted with blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips speak falsehood,
And your tongue muttereth wickedness.
4None pronounceth a verdict in justice,
Neither doth any one judge in truth:
Trusting in vanity, and speaking lies,
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5They hatch the eggs of the basilisk,
And weave the webs of the spider;
He that eateth of their eggs dieth,
And out of that which is crushed a viper breaketh forth.
6Their webs shall not become garments,
Neither shall men cover themselves with their works:
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the deed of violence is in their hands.
7Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Ruin and devastation are in their paths.
8The way of peace they know not,
And there is no judgment in their course;
Their paths they have made to themselves crooked,
Whoso walketh in them, shall not know peace.
9Therefore is judgment far distant from us,
Neither doth justice reach us;
We look for light, but behold obscurity;
For brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10We grope like the blind for the wall,
And we grope as those who have no eyes;
We stumble at mid-day as if it were dark,
We are in the midst of plenty, like unto the dead.
11We roar like bears, every one of us;
And moan continually like doves.
We look for judgment, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far off from us.
12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,
And our sins testify against us:
For our transgressions are with us;
And at for our iniquities, we know them.
13We have transgressed; and we have denied Jehovah;
We have also departed from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14And judgment is turned away backward,
And justice standeth aloof;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
15Yea, truth is wanted,
And he that departed from evil maketh himself a
And Jehovah saw it,
And it displeased Him that there was no judgment.
16And He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him;
And his righteousness, it sustained him.
17And He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And the helmet of salvation was on his head;
And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing;
And clad Himself with zeal as with a mantle.
18According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, prey:
Fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies;
To the islands a recompense will He repay.
19And they from the west shall fear the name of Jehovah,
And they from the rising of the sun his glory.
When the enemy shall come in like a river,
The Spirit of Jehovah shall put him to flight.
20And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
And unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob;
Saith Jehovah.
21As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah:
My Spirit which is upon thee,
And my words which I have put in thy mouth;
They shall not depart from thy mouth,
Nor from the mouth of thy seed,
Nor from the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah,
From henceforth and for ever.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.
Isaiah 59
59
Conviction of Sin
1Truly Yahweh’s arm is not too powerless to save you
nor his ear too deaf to hear.
2Rather, your sinful deeds have built a barrier
between you and your God.
Your sins have made God turn his face from you
so that he does not hear your prayers.
3For your hands are stained with blood
and your fingers are dripping with the guilt of sin.
Lies spill from your lips
and your tongue mutters treachery.
4No one seeks true justice;
no one pleads his case with honesty.
They rely on their illusions and misleading lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to sin.
5They hatch harmful plots like snake’s eggs
and spin their lies like a spider spins its web.
Whoever eats their “eggs” dies
and a poisonous snake gets hatched!
6Their “webs” cannot substitute as clothing,
they cannot cover themselves with the lies they spin,
nor can their works cover them adequately.
Their actions are evil,
and the wages of violence is in their hands.
7Their feet eagerly run after evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood. # 59:7 See Prov. 6:16–19; Rom. 3:15–16.
Their imaginations are filled with evil; # 59:7 See Gen. 6:5.
destruction and desolation litter their paths.
8They know nothing of the way of peace, # 59:8 See Rom. 3:17; Eph. 2:14.
and injustice is their way of life.
Their paths are so crooked
that no one who walks in them knows peace.
Confession of Sin
9For this reason, justice is far from us
and righteousness doesn’t reach us.
We hope for light, but sadly, there is only darkness. # 59:9 See John 8:11–12.
We wait for a bright light, but walk in darkness.
10We are like the blind groping along a wall,
inching along in the dark like those who cannot see;
we stumble around in broad daylight like it was night,
like the walking dead. # 59:10 The meaning of this Hebrew clause is uncertain. See Eph. 2:1.
11We are frustrated, growling like bears,
like doves cooing mournfully.
We wait and wait for justice, but it never seems to come;
for salvation, but it remains distant.
12For our many rebellious deeds are stacked high before you;
our sins testify against us.
We are aware of our sins,
and we know our evil deeds all too well.
13We have rebelled and even tried to deny Yahweh;
we have forsaken our God.
Our speech stirs up oppression and revolt,
and our hearts conceive, then confess, lies. # 59:13 See Eph. 4:25.
14Justice is driven away
and righteousness stands on the sidelines,
for truth has stumbled in the public square
and morality cannot enter.
15Yes, truth has disappeared, # 59:15 Or “truth is hidden” (Vulg.).
and those who turn from evil become the next victims.
Yahweh saw this and was greatly displeased
that there was no justice.
The Lord, Our Redeemer
16And then he was astonished to see that there was no champion, # 59:16 Or “intercessor.”
not even one, who would rescue the oppressed. # 59:16 Or “intercede.”
So then his own mighty power # 59:16 Or “arm,” a metaphor for his mighty power. rescued him,
and his own righteousness supported him.
17He put on righteousness as his body armor, # 59:17 See Eph. 6:10–18.
salvation for a helmet;
a garment of warring vengeance was his uniform
and passion, his cape.
18He will repay wrath to his enemies
and retribution to his foes,
according to what they have done.
Reckoning is coming to the islands for what is due them.
19From the west to the lands of the rising sun,
the glory and the name of Yahweh
will be held in highest reverence,
for he will break in as a flooding, rushing river # 59:19 God broke into the human condition as a man who died on the cross. His blood, like a flood of righteousness, washes away the sins of those who believe in him.
driven on by the breath of Yahweh! # 59:19 Or “When the enemy comes in, the Spirit of Yahweh, like a flood, will lift up a standard against him”; or “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the breath of Yahweh will put him to flight.”
God’s Covenant with Zion
20“He will come to Zion as a Kinsman-Redeemer
to those of Jacob’s tribes who repent of their rebellion,”
says Yahweh.
21“And this is my covenant promise with them,” # 59:21 See Jer. 31:33; Rom. 11:26–27; Gal. 3:29; Heb. 12:22–24.
says Lord Yahweh.
“From now on, my Holy Spirit will rest on them
and not depart from them,
and my prophetic words will fill their mouths
and will not depart from them, nor from their children,
nor from their descendants, from now on and forever,”
says Lord Yahweh.
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