Isaiah 59:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

Common English Bible

³ Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips speak lies; your tongues mutter malice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity.

Isaiah 59:3 Cross References

Isaiah 1:15

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.

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God.

Jeremiah 2:34

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

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her— but now murderers!

Micah 7:2

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.

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Hosea 7:13

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.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Ezekiel 35:6

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.

Ezekiel 9:9

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.’

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

Jeremiah 7:8

Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Matthew 27:4

He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”

Hosea 7:3

By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.

Ezekiel 22:2

You, mortal, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to it all its abominable deeds.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 6:5

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!”

Isaiah 9:15

elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail,

Isaiah 28:15

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”;

Isaiah 30:9

For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;

Isaiah 44:20

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?”

Isaiah 59:13

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.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 9:2

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.

Jeremiah 9:7

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?

Micah 3:4

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.