But (A)your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with [a]blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue hath murmured iniquity.

No man calleth for justice: no man [b]contendeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak vain things: they conceive mischief, and [c]bring forth iniquity.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:3 Read Isa. 1:15.
  2. Isaiah 59:4 All men wink at the injuries and oppressions, and none go about to remedy them.
  3. Isaiah 59:4 According to their wicked devices, they hurt their neighbors.

But your iniquities have separated(A)
    you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.(B)
For your hands are stained with blood,(C)
    your fingers with guilt.(D)
Your lips have spoken falsely,(E)
    and your tongue mutters wicked things.
No one calls for justice;(F)
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely(G) on empty arguments, they utter lies;(H)
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.(I)

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