Isaiah 59:1-8

Lexham English Bible

59 Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short to save,^[a]
    and his ear is not too dull to hear.^[b]
2 Rather, your iniquities have been barriers^[c] between you and your God,
    and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood,
    and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies,
    your tongue speaks wickedness.
⁴ There is nobody who pleads with^[d] justice,
    and there is nobody who judges with honesty.
They rely on nothing
    and speak vanity.
They conceive trouble
    and beget iniquity;
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.
⁶ Their webs cannot become clothing,
    and they cannot cover themselves with their works.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds^[e] of violence are in their hands.
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.
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^[f] in it knows no peace.