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Isaiah 59:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are sinful works, and violent acts are in their hands.

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As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction  resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.


I will announce your righteousness, and your works #– #they will not profit you.


On that day  I will punish all who skip over the threshold,  , who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.


For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.


But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.


You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.


The people are incapable of doing right   – this is the  Lord’s declaration – those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.


Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed, and the city is filled with violence.


Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain: none of that crowd, none of their wealth, and none of the eminent  among them.


All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted   garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities  carry us away like the wind.


You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.


Woe to the rebellious children! This is the  Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan,  but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.


For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.


Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.


although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.


and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,


‘If he hates  and divorces his wife,’  says the Lord God of Israel, ‘he  covers his garment with injustice,’  says the Lord of Armies. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully,  and do not act treacherously.


He answered me, ‘The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed,  and the city full of perversity. For they say, “The Lord has abandoned the land;  he does not see.”


Woe to the city that is rebellious  , and defiled, the oppressive city!





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