10 Day and night they go around it
    on its walls,
and (A)iniquity and trouble are within it;

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14 (A)Each evening they come back,
    howling like dogs
    and prowling about the city.
15 They (B)wander about for food
    and growl if they do not get their fill.

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(A)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.
(B)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    (C)no one who treads on them knows peace.

Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not overtake us;
(D)we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 (E)We grope for the wall like the blind;
    we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
    (F)among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
11 We all growl like bears;
    (G)we moan and moan like doves;
(H)we hope for justice, but there is none;
    for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
    and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
(I)speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Judgment and Redemption

14 (J)Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
15 Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him[a]
    that there was no justice.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes

24 but their (A)plot became known to Saul. (B)They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,

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Jesus Before Pilate

28 (A)Then they led Jesus (B)from the house of Caiaphas to (C)the governor's headquarters.[a] It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, (D)so that they would not be defiled, (E)but could eat the Passover.

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Footnotes

  1. John 18:28 Greek the praetorium

(A)So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

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Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
    (A)the oppressing city!
She listens to no voice;
    (B)she accepts no correction.
(C)She does not trust in the Lord;
    she does not draw near to her God.

(D)Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
her judges are (E)evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.

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Woe to the Oppressors

(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
They covet fields and (C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

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For with hearts like an oven (A)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and (A)put a mark on the foreheads of the men who (B)sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

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Each evening they (A)come back,
    howling like dogs
    and prowling about the city.

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Hushai Saves David

17 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. I will come upon him while he is (A)weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. (B)I will strike down only the king,

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21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to (A)your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and (B)the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom (C)on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines (D)in the sight of all Israel.

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11 (A)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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