Presents pamphlet 6459
The Book of
Isaiah
Chapter 59
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you
and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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;
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 cannot
enter.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will
repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompence.
19 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.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 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.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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