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Isaiah 59:4

English Standard Version 2016

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.

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

Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.

They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,

For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;

You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.

Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.




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