For your (A)hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken (B)falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
(C)No one sues righteously and (D)no one pleads [a]honestly.
They (E)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They (F)conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch adders’ eggs and (G)weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:4 Lit in truth

For your hands are stained with blood,(A)
    your fingers with guilt.(B)
Your lips have spoken falsely,(C)
    and your tongue mutters wicked things.
No one calls for justice;(D)
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely(E) on empty arguments, they utter lies;(F)
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.(G)
They hatch the eggs of vipers(H)
    and spin a spider’s web.(I)
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

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