Isaiah 59
King James Bible: Purple Letter EditionERP 
The tragic nature of sin

1Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5They hatch adder's {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. 6Their 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. 7Their 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. 8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice {judgment} in their goings; they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth in them {therein} shall not know peace. 9Therefore is justice {judgment} far from us, neither doth righteousness {justice} overtake us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places like {as} dead men. 11We roar all like bears, and mourn greatly {sore} like doves; we look for justice {judgment}, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12For 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, 13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14And justice {judgment} is turned away backward, and righteousness {justice} standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice {judgment}. 16And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore, His arm brought salvation to Israel for Himself {unto Him}; and His righteousness {it} sustained Him. 17For 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. 18According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompence to His enemies; to the coastlands {islands} He will repay recompence. 19So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. 20And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them who turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. 21As for Me, this is My covenant with them, saith the LORD: 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 the LORD, from henceforth and forever.

King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition
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