LIX. 1 Behold, the ’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear grown heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have been separating between you and your God, and your sins have hidden the Face from you, that he hear not.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue will mutter wickedness.
4 There is none that sueth in righteousness, and none that pleadeth in truth; they trust in emptiness, and speak vanity; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch ’s eggs, and weave spider's webs; he that eateth of their eggs shall die, and that which is crushed, it hatcheth out into an adder.
6 Their webs shall not serve for a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the practice of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction are in their highways.
8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have made them their paths crooked; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness,—we walk in
10 We grope along the wall like blind men, and we grope as men without eyes; we have stumbled at noonday as in the dusk; among the vigorous as the dead.
11 We all groan like bears, and moan piteously like doves; we wait for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, it is far off from us.
12 For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our rebellions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them:
13 Rebelling and denying the LORD, and drawing back from following our God: speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is driven backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth hath stumbled in the broad place, and uprightness cannot enter.
15 And truth is (found) missing, and he that removeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the LORD saw it, and it was evil in his eyes that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and was amazed that there was none that interposed; therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him, and his righteousness, it upheld him.
17 And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in jealousy as a cloke.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly will he requite, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the isles he will requite recompense.
19 And they shall fear the name of the LORD from the setting, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he shall come as a pent-up stream, which the breath of the LORD driveth.
20 And a redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them that turn from rebellion in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaias. . ed. Richard Rusden Ottley. Germany. 2016.
Sponsored by University of Leipzig.
Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.