59:1 Has the hand of Yehovah no power to
save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?
59:2 Nay, your iniquities separate between you and Elohim, and because of your
sins has he turned away [his] face from you, so as not to have mercy [upon
you].
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your
lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
59:4 None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in
vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring
forth iniquity.
59:5 They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is
going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in
it a basilisk.
59:6 Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe
themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.
59:7 And their feet run t wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts
also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
59:8 and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their
ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
59:9 Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not
overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while
they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
59:10 They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it]
as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they
shall groan as dying men.
59:11 They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited
for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
59:12 For our iniquity is great before thee, and our sins have risen up
against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.
59:13 We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our Elohim: we have
spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and
uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
59:14 And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar
off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a
straight [path].
59:15 And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind
from understanding. And Yehovah saw it, and it pleased him not that there
was no judgment.
59:16 And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was
none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and stablished [them] with
[his] mercy.
59:17 And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet
of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of
vengeance, and with his cloak,
59:18 as one about to render a recompence, [even] reproach to his
adversaries.
59:19 So shall they of the west fear the name of Yehovah, and they [that
come] from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the
Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.
59:20 And the deliverer shall come for Zion's sake, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob.
59:21 And this shall be my covenant with them, said Yehovah; My Spirit
which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never
fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, for Yehovah has spoken
it, henceforth and for ever. |
59:1 Behold, Yehovah's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your Elohim, and your
sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth
of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act
of violence is in their hands.
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in
their paths.
59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace.
59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we
wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no
eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as
dead men.
59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
59:13 In transgressing and lying against Yehovah, and departing away from
our Elohim, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood.
59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey: and Yehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence.
59:19 So shall they fear the name of Yehovah from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of Yehovah shall lift up a standard against him.
59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob, saith Yehovah.
59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Yehovah; My spirit
that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Yehovah, from henceforth and for ever. |