59 Behold,
the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear
heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But
your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For
your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your
lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None
calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity,
and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They
hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of
their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their
webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with
their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence
is in their hands. 7 Their
feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The
way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings:
they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know
peace. 9 Therefore
is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for
light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We
grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes:
we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead
men. 11 We
roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify
against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities,
we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the
LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth
from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased
him that there was no judgment. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly
he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the
islands he will repay recompence. 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD
from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy
shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him. 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with
them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which 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.