Isaiah 59:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. American Standard Version (1901) For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. Common English Bible Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips speak lies; your tongues mutter malice. Catholic Public Domain Version For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue uttereth iniquity. |
When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her— but now murderers!
Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”
transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.
And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail,
In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.
O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I will now refine and test them, for what else can I do with the daughter of my people?
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God.
You, mortal, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to it all its abominable deeds.
therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will make you bloody, and blood shall pursue you; since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.
He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.
Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.
Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.
He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.