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Isaiah 59:3

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For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.

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When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!

“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.

On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!

The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’

“ ‘Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”

“They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.

“Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices

“But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”

Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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

You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.

Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

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

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.




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