Isaiah 59:1-9

New American Standard Bible

59 Behold, ^(A)the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save;
^(B)Nor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.
² But your ^(C)wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ^[a]face from you so that He does ^(D)not hear.
³ For your ^(E)hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with wrongdoing;
Your lips have spoken ^(F)deceit,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
^4 (G)No one sues righteously and ^(H)no one pleads ^[b]honestly.
They ^(I)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^(J)conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and ^(K)weave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^(L)cover themselves with their works;
Their ^(M)works are works of wrongdoing,
And an ^(N)act of violence is in their ^[c]hands.
^7 (O)Their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
^(P)Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They do not know the ^(Q)way of peace,
And there is ^(R)no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^(S)Whoever walks on ^[d]them does not know peace.

⁹ Therefore ^(T)justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not reach us;
We ^(U)hope for light, but there is darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.