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Isaiah 59:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing and speak vanities. They have conceived labour and brought forth iniquity.

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He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity: and his womb prepareth deceits.

Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

Behold, you put your trust in lying words which shall not profit you:

Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word and have trusted in oppression and tumult and have leaned upon it:

For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself. And his own arm brought salvation to him and his own justice supported him.

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgement and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips shall praise.

He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant. And I looked that he should do judgment, and, behold, iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

WOE to them that make wicked laws: and, when they write, write injustice:

We have conceived and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind. We have not wrought salvation on the earth: therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.

For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.

For he that did prevail hath failed; the scorner is consumed; and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:

For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.

You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

Part thereof is ashes. His foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.

And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil lay open to be a prey. And the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.

There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up and taketh hold of thee: Thou hast hid thy face from us and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Behold, he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

And the Jews also added, and said that these things were so.




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