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thyself in the L
ORD
; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the L
ORD
hath spoken
it.
CHAPTER 59
Behold, the L
ORD
’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear:
2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid
his
face from you, that he will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4
None calleth for
justice, nor
any
pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity.
5
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of
their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6
Their webs shall not become
garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works
are
works of iniquity,
and the act of violence
is
in their hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts
are
thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction
are
in their paths.
8
The way
of peace they know not; and
there is
no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked
paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold
obscurity; for brightness,
but
we walk in darkness.
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we
grope as if
we had
no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night;
we are
in desolate places as
dead
men.
11
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but
there is
none; for salvation,
but
it is far off from us.
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,
and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions
are
with us; and
as for
our iniquities, we know
them;
13
In transgressing and lying against the L
ORD
, and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14
And judgment
is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot enter.
15
Yea, truth faileth; and he
that
departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the
L
ORD
saw
it,
and it displeased him that
there was
no judgment.
16
And he saw that
there was
no man, and wondered that
there was
no intercessor: therefore his
arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17
For he put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments
of vengeance
for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18
According to
their
deeds, accordingly
he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence.
19
So shall they fear the name of the L
ORD
from the west, and his glory from the rising
of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the L
ORD
shall lift up a standard
against him.
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