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58.14
ISAIAH
- And I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
- And I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father;
- For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
- 59Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
- Neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear;
- 2But your iniquities have separated
- Between you and your God,
- And your sins have hid His face from you,
- That He will not hear.
- 3For your hands are defiled with blood,
- And your fingers with iniquity;
- Your lips have spoken lies,
- Your tongue muttereth wickedness.
- 4None sueth in righteousness,
- And none pleadeth in truth;
- They trust in vanity, and speak lies,
- They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- 5They hatch basilisks' eggs,
- And weave the spider's web;
- He that eateth of their eggs dieth,
- And that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
- 6Their webs shall not become garments,
- Neither shall men cover themselves with their works;
- Their works are works of iniquity,
- And the act of violence is in their hands.
- 7Their feet run to evil,
- And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
- Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
- Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- 8The way of peace they know not,
- And there is no right in their goings;
- They have made them crooked paths,
- Whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
- 9Therefore is justice far from us,
- Neither doth righteousness overtake us;
- We look for light, but behold darkness,
- For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- 10We grope for the wall like the blind,
- Yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope;
- We stumble at noonday as in the twilight;
- We are in dark places like the dead.
- 11We all growl like bears,
- And mourn sore like doves;
- We look for right, but there is none;
- For salvation, but it is far off from us.
- 12For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee,
- And our sins testify against us;
- For our transgressions are present to us,
- And as for our iniquities, we know them:
- 13Transgressing and denying the Lord,
- And turning away from following our God,
- Speaking oppression and perverseness,
- Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- 14And justice is turned away backward,
- And righteousness standeth afar off;
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