LEB - Isaiah - 59

59:1  Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short ⌞to save⌟, and his ear is not too dull ⌞to hear⌟.

59:2  Rather, your iniquities have been ⌞barriers⌟ between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.

59:3  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.

59:4  There is nobody ⌞who pleads with⌟ justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

59:5  they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent.

59:6  Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

59:7  Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their highways.

59:8  They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone ⌞who walks⌟ in it knows no peace.

59:9  Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

59:10  We grope like the blind along a wall, and we grope ⌞as without⌟ eyes. We stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the strong we are like the dead.

59:11  We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

59:12  For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins ⌞testify⌟ against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:

59:13  transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning ⌞away from following⌟ our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart.

59:14  And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,

59:15  and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil is plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice

59:16  And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness ⌞was what⌟ sustained him.

59:17  And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe.

59:18  According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his ⌞enemies⌟. He will repay requital to the coastlands.

59:19  So they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the sunrise, for he will come like a narrow stream; the wind of Yahweh drives it on.

59:20  “And a redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression,” ⌞declares⌟ Yahweh.

59:21  “And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have placed in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your ⌞children⌟, or from the mouths of ⌞your children’s children⌟,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”