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Isaiah 59:3

The Passion Translation

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers are dripping with the guilt of sin. Lies spill from your lips and your tongue mutters treachery.

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Putting others down while considering yourself superior, spreading lies and rumors, spilling the blood of the innocent,

When you stretch out your hands to pray, I will hide my eyes from you. Repeat your prayers all you want, but I will not listen, for your hands are stained with innocent blood.

Look how the once faithful city has become as unfaithful as a prostitute! She who was once the “Center of Justice,” where righteousness made its home, is now the dwelling place of murderers!

For you have said, “We have made a covenant with death and a pact with the underworld, so when the overwhelming scourge sweeps over us, it will not harm us. For we have made lies our refuge and found our shelter in falsehood.”

Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because their words and their works are defiant before the face of the Lord’s glorious presence.

For they are stubborn rebels, children always telling lies, who refuse to listen to Yahweh’s instruction.

He feeds his spirit on ashes! His deluded heart leads him astray. He can’t even ask himself, “Is this thing I’m holding in my right hand a fraud?”

We have rebelled and even tried to deny Yahweh; we have forsaken our God. Our speech stirs up oppression and revolt, and our hearts conceive, then confess, lies.

Then I stammered and said, “Woe is me! I’m destroyed —doomed as a sinful man! For my words are tainted and I live among people who talk the same way. King Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies—my eyes have gazed upon him!”

The elders and dignitaries are the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

“I’ve wasted my time punishing you because you did not respond to my correction. With the ferocity of a hungry lion, you murdered the prophets I sent to you.

Your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the helpless and innocent, though you did not catch them breaking into your home. Despite all your guilt,

“But your eyes and heart are only interested in what brings you unjust profit, in violently oppressing your people even if it means shedding innocent blood.”

“ ‘Look, you keep putting your trust in worthless lies.

If only I had a shelter in the wilderness, a place for weary travelers to spend the night. Then I could leave my people and go away from them because they’re all unfaithful to God — a company of corrupters.

Therefore, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, says: “Listen! I will refine my dear people by fire and test them because of what they have done. I have no other choice.

“ ‘Therefore, Lord Yahweh says to you: Because you have spoken your false prophecies and lying visions, behold, I am against you, says Lord Yahweh.

“Son of man, are you ready to judge the city of murderers? You must confront her with all the disgusting things she has done!

Therefore, as surely as I live—declares Lord Yahweh—I will let you be murdered. Murder will chase you down. Because you did not despise bloodshed, bloodshed will hunt you down!

“ ‘Prepare plenty of chains to bind up the captives. For the country is full of bloodshed and murders, and the city is full of violence,

He answered me, “The guilt of the people of Israel and Judah is enormous. The land is full of bloodshed, and Jerusalem full of perverted justice. They say, ‘Yahweh can’t see us! He has abandoned the nation.’

saying, “I have sinned by betraying an innocent man.” They replied, “Why are you bothering us? That’s your problem.”

Hypocritical liars will deceive many, and their consciences won’t bother them at all!




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