ABP - Isaiah - 59

59:1  Is not [4strong 1the 2hand 3of the lord] to deliver? or [2weighed down 1his ear] to not listen?

59:2  But your sins make a part between you and God; and on account of your sins he turned his face from you, to not show mercy.

59:3  For your hands are tainted with blood, and your fingers with sins; and your lips spoke lawlessness, and your tongue [2injustice 1meditated upon].

59:4  No one speaks just things, nor is there [2equity 1true]. They rely upon vanities, and they speak empty things; for they sire misery and give birth to lawlessness.

59:5  [2eggs 3of asps 1They hatch], and [3a web 2of a spider 1weave]. And the one about [2their eggs 1to eat], breaking a rotten egg found also in it a cobra.

59:6  Their web shall not be made into a garment, nor shall they clothe themselves from their works, for their works are works of lawlessness.

59:7  And their feet [2unto 3wickedness 1run], quick to pour out blood, and their thoughts are thoughts of murder. Destruction and misery are in their ways.

59:8  And the way of peace they do not know, and there is no equity in their ways. For their roads [3are perverted 1which 2they travel through], and they do not know peace.

59:9  On account of this [2left 1equity] from them, and in no way shall [2overtake 3them 1righteousness]. In their waiting light, [2came 3to them 1darkness]; waiting for daylight, [2in 3midnight 1they walked].

59:10  They shall grope as blind men for a wall, and [2as 3ones not 4possessing 5eyes 1they shall grope]. They shall fall in midday as at midnight; [2as 3ones dying 1they shall moan].

59:11  As a bear and as a dove together they shall go. We awaited judgment, and there is no deliverance; [2far 1it is removed] from us.

59:12  [4is great 1For 2our 3lawlessness] before you, and our sins withstood us. For our lawless deeds are in us, and our offences we knew.

59:13  We were impious, and lied, and departed from our God. We spoke unjustly, and we resisted persuasion. We sired, and meditated [3from 4our heart 2words 1unjust].

59:14  And we left behind equity, and righteousness [2far off 1removed]. For [3was consumed 4in 5their ways 1the 2truth], and [3by 4a straight way 1they were not able 2to go].

59:15  And the truth was lifted away, and they changed their thought of the perceiving. And the lord beheld, and it did not please him, for there was no equity.

59:16  And he beheld, and there was no man. And he contemplated, and there was no one assisting. And he defended them with his arm, and [2with his charity 1he supported them].

59:17  And he clothed himself with righteousness as a chest plate; and he put a helmet of deliverance upon his head. and he put around himself a cloak of vengeance -- even a wrap-around garment,

59:18  as one recompensing a reward of scorn to the adversaries.

59:19  And [4shall fear 1the ones 2from 3the west] the name of the lord; and the ones from the east sun shall fear the [2name 1honorable]. [6shall come 1For 7as 9river 8a violent 2the 3anger 4of 5the lord]; it shall come with rage.

59:20  And [3shall come 4from 5Zion 1the one 2rescuing], and he shall turn impiety from Jacob.

59:21  And this [2to them 3is by me 1covenant], said the lord. The spirit -- mine, which is upon you, and my words which I put in your mouth, in no way shall fail from your mouth, nor from out of the mouth of your seed; said the lord, from the present and unto the eon.