Isaiah 59:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. American Standard Version (1901) For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. Common English Bible Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips speak lies; your tongues mutter malice. Catholic Public Domain Version For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue uttereth iniquity. |
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
*Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with She'ol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'*
For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Yehudah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Then I said, *Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Therefore thus says the LORD of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.
You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Yisra'el and Yehudah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, the LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn't see.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.*
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
saying, *I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.* But they said, *What is that to us? You see to it.*
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;