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Isaiah 59:3

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Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers are stained with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

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So when you stretch out your hands ⌞in prayer⌟, I will turn my eyes away from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are covered with blood.

“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Your predictions are false, and your visions are lies. That is why I’m against you, declares the Almighty Lord.

You have the blood from poor and innocent people on your clothes. You didn’t kill them for breaking into your home.

“I have punished your children without results. They didn’t respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.

How the faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice, and righteousness lived in her. But now murderers live there!

Faithful people are gone from the earth, and no one is decent. All people lie in ambush to commit murder. They trap each other with nets.

The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully.

“How horrible it will be for these people. They have run away from me. They must be destroyed because they’ve rebelled against me. I want to reclaim them, but they tell lies about me.

There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break ⌞my laws⌟, and there is one murder after another.

That is why, as I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I will let you be murdered. Murderers will pursue you. Since you don’t hate murdering people, murder will pursue you.

He answered me, “The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible. The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that the Lord has abandoned the land and that he doesn’t see.

“Get the chains ready! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with violence.

“ ‘You are trusting the words of a saying. It’s a lie that cannot help you.

These people will speak lies disguised as truth. Their consciences have been scarred as if branded by a red-hot iron.

He said, “I’ve sinned by betraying an innocent man.” They replied, “What do we care? That’s your problem.”

“They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell.

“Will you judge, son of man? Will you judge the city of murderers? Then tell it about all the disgusting things that it has done.

“But your eyes and your mind are set on nothing but dishonest profits. You kill innocent people and violently oppress your people.”

Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against the Lord. They are defiant in his honored presence.

So I said, “Oh, no! I’m doomed. Every word that passes through my lips is sinful. I live among people with sinful lips. I have seen the king, the Lord of Armies!”

Respected and honored leaders are the head. Prophets who teach lies are the tail.

You say, “We made a treaty with death and an agreement with the grave. When the overwhelming disaster passes by, it won’t matter to us, because we have taken refuge in our lies, and falsehood is our hiding place.”

These people are rebellious and deceitful children, children who refuse to listen to the Lord’s teachings.

They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They can’t rescue themselves or ask themselves, “Isn’t what I hold in my right hand a false god?”

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, a mob of traitors.

This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will now refine them with fire and test them. What else can I do for my dear people?

Then you will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer you. He will hide his face from you at that time because you have done evil things.




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