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For your hands are stained with blood
and your fingers with sin;
your lips speak lies,
your tongue utters malicious words.
No one is concerned about justice;[a]
no one sets forth his case truthfully.
They depend on false words[b] and tell lies;
they conceive of oppression[c]
and give birth to sin.
They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake
and spin a spider’s web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
a poisonous snake is hatched.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:4 tn Heb “no one pleads with justice.”
  2. Isaiah 59:4 tn Heb “nothing”; NAB “emptiness.”
  3. Isaiah 59:4 tn Or “trouble” (NIV), or “harm.”
  4. Isaiah 59:5 tn Heb “that which is pressed in hatches [as] a snake.”

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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