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UST ISA Chapter 59

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59 Listen! Yahweh is powerful enough to save you.

He can hear you when you call for help.

2 Rather, the wrong things you have done have separated you from your God.

Your sins have led him to disregard you

and not do what you ask.

3 You have done wicked things,

including attacking people violently.

You say bad things that are not true.

4 People do not bring others to court honestly,

and they do not plead their own cases fairly.

They depend on being deceptive, and they tell lies.

They plan to cause trouble, and then they carry out their evil plans.

5 They make bad things happen,

as if they were hatching snakes from eggs.

If people eat those eggs, they will die,

If they crack open their shells, a poisonous snake will come out.

It is as if those wicked people are spiders

that spin webs to catch other creatures.

6 They do not produce useful things,

just as people can not make clothing from spider webs.

That is because what they do is wicked.

They even attack other people violently.

7 They are eager to do things that are wrong.

They rush to murder innocent people.

They think of wicked things to do.

Wherever they go, they destroy things and make people suffer.

8 They do not know how to live peacefully

and they do not treat others fairly.

They behave dishonestly.

Those who live as they do will not have peaceful lives.

9 Because of this, Yahweh is not delivering us.

He is not rescuing us from our troubles.

We hope that things will go well for us, but instead things go badly.

We hope for relief, but instead we experience trouble.

10 We do not know what we should do,

as if we are blind people who must feel their way along a wall.

We should know what to do, as people can see clearly in daylight,

but instead we make mistakes, as people stumble in dim light.

Compared with strong people,

we are so weak that it is as if we were dead.

11 We all grumble as if we were bears,

and we moan as if we were doves.

We wait for Yahweh to deliver us, but he does not.

We long for him to rescue us, but he does not.

12 We know that we have sinned many times against Yahweh.

What we have done wrong shows that we are guilty.

Yes, we are aware that we have sinned.

We know what we have done wrong.

13 We have rebelled against Yahweh and rejected him.

We have stopped obeying our God.

We made plans to disobey him by oppressing others.

We carefully thought of untrue things to say, and then we said them.

14 Judges do not decide cases fairly,

and people do not do what is right.

They do not tell the truth in the public places where people gather.

People are not able to speak honestly.

15 People no longer tell the truth.

They take advantage of others who are honest.

Yahweh saw this, and it displeased him

that no one was acting fairly.

16 It discouraged him when he saw

that no one was trying to help others.

So he used his own power to rescue his people.

He always does what is right, and that strengthened him.

17 He does what is right,

and that was like armor for him.

He saves people, and that was like a helmet for his head.

He punishes people for doing wrong, and that was like a garment for him.

He wants people to worship only him, and that was like a robe for him.

18 He will punish people as they deserve for what they have done.

He will be angry with those who oppose him,

and he will treat those enemies as they deserve.

Throughout the world, he will punish people as they deserve.

19 Then people throughout the world

will respect Yahweh because he is great and glorious.

That is because he will come to punish people powerfully and quickly,

the way water rushes in a narrow stream when a strong wind pushes it along.

20 Yahweh declares, “I will come to Mount Zion

and rescue those Israelites who stop sinning.”

21 Yahweh says to his people, “This is the agreement that I am making with you. I will never take away from you my Spirit, who is with you, and the message that I have given you to speak. You and your descendants and their descendants will always be declaring my message.” Yahweh says, “This will be true from now on and forever.”