Isaiah 59:12-20

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹² Yes, our rebellious deeds are many before you,
and our sins testify against us.
Our rebellious deeds are with us,
and as for our guilty deeds, we are aware of them.
¹³ Those deeds are rebellion and treachery against the Lord.
We turn back from following our God.
We incite oppression and apostasy.
We conceive and mutter deceitful words from our hearts.
¹⁴ Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far away,
for truth stumbles in the city square,
and honesty cannot enter it.
¹⁵ The truth is missing,
and anyone who turns from evil makes himself prey.^[a]
The Lord looked and saw something evil—
there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no one.
He was appalled that there was no one who could intervene.
So his own arm worked salvation for him,
and his own righteousness supported him.
¹⁷ He clothed himself with righteousness like armor
and wore a helmet of salvation on his head.
He dressed in garments for vengeance,
and he wrapped himself with zeal like a cloak.
¹⁸ He will repay in full what they have earned,
namely, wrath to his foes and full payment to his enemies.
He will repay even the distant coastlands.
¹⁹ From the west they will fear the Lord’s name,
and from the rising of the sun they will fear his glory,
for he will come like a raging river,
driven by the Spirit^[b] of the Lord.
²⁰ Then a redeemer will come for Zion
and for those in Jacob who turn from rebellion.
This is the declaration of the Lord.