Isaiah 59:15-21

Common English Bible

¹⁵Truth is missing;
anyone turning from evil is plundered.

God will intervene

The Lord looked and was upset at the absence of justice.
¹⁶Seeing that there was no one,
    and astonished that no one would intervene,
    God’s arm brought victory,
    upheld by righteousness,
¹⁷    putting on righteousness as armor
    and a helmet of salvation on his head,
    putting on garments of vengeance,
    and wrapping himself in a cloak of zeal.
¹⁸God will repay according to their actions:
    wrath to his foes, retribution to enemies,
    retribution to the coastlands,
¹⁹    so those in the west will fear the Lord’s name,
    and those in the east will fear God’s glory.
It will come like a rushing river
    that the Lord’s wind drives on.
²⁰A redeemer will come to Zion
    and to those in Jacob who stop rebelling,
    says the Lord.

²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord.
    My spirit, which is upon you,
    and my words, which I have placed in your mouth
    won’t depart from your mouth,
    nor from the mouths of your descendants,
    nor from the mouths of your descendants’ children,
    says the Lord,
    forever and always.