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ULT ISA Chapter 59

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59 Behold, the hand of Yahweh is not too short to save,

and not his ear too dull to hear.

2 Your transgressions, however, have caused separation

between you and between your God,

and your sins have made him hide his face from you

so he does not hear.

3 For your hands are stained with blood

and your fingers with sin.

Your lips speak falsehood;

your tongue murmurs evil.

4 None calls in righteousness,

and none pleads his case in truth,

trusting in emptiness and speaking vanity,

conceiving trouble and birthing sin.

5 The eggs of a poisonous snake they hatch,

and the web of a spider they weave.

Whoever eats of their eggs dies,

and when one is crushed, an adder is hatched.

6 Their webs are not for garments,

and they do not cover themselves with their works.

Their works are works of sin,

and deeds of violence are in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil,

and they hasten to spill innocent blood.

Their thoughts are thoughts of sin;

violence and destruction are their roads.

8 The way of peace they do not know,

and there is no justice in their tracks.

They distorted their paths;

all who travel it do not know peace.

9 Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness does not reach us.

We wait for light, but behold, darkness;

for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

10 We grope the wall as the blind,

and as though without eyes we grope.

We stumble at noonday as in the twilight;

among the strong as the dead.

11 We growl like bears, all of us,

and like doves, mourn sadly;

we wait for justice, but there is none;

for rescue, but it is far from us.

12 For our many transgressions are before you,

and our sins testify against us;

for our transgressions are with us,

and our iniquities we know:

13 rebelling, and denying Yahweh

and turning away from after our God,

speaking extortion and turning aside,

conceiving and complaining from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And justice is driven back,

and righteousness stands far off;

for truth stumbles in the plaza,

and straightforwardness is not able to come.

15 And it happens that truth is missing,

and he who turns away from evil makes himself plunder.

And Yahweh saw, and it was evil in his eyes

that there was no justice.

16 And he saw that there was no man,

and was amazed that there was no intercessor.

So his arm brought salvation for him,

and his righteousness was his support.

17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate

and a helmet of salvation upon his head,

and he clothed himself with garments of vengeance for clothing

and wore zeal as a mantle.

18 As all the deeds will be

as all he repays,

anger to his adversaries,

recompense to his enemies,

to the islands he will pay the reward.

19 And they will fear the name of Yahweh from the west,

and his glory from the rising of the sun;

for he will come as a rushing stream,

driven by the breath of Yahweh.

20 “And a redeemer will come to Zion

and to those who turn from their rebellious deeds in Jacob”

—the declaration of Yahweh.

21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not leave your mouth, or the mouths of your seed, or the mouths of the seed of your seed,“ says Yahweh, “from now and to eternity.”