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Isaiah 59:5

Verse 5 of 21. The 59th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

1Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

5They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

6Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.