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Sin's Consequences and God's Redeeming Intervention

Isaiah 59:1-21

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Chapter 59
1 Behold, the hand of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too heavy to hear. 2 For your iniquities have been separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you in hearing. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters injustice. 4 No one calls in righteousness, and no one pleads in faithfulness. He relies on emptiness and speaks vanity; they conceive toil and give birth to iniquity. 5 They have hatched viper eggs and woven spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and whoever crushes one hatches a viper. 6 Their belts will not become a garment, nor will they cover themselves with their deeds. Their deeds are deeds of iniquity, and the work of violence is in their palms. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, devastation, and breaking in their highways. 8 They do not know a way of peace, and there is no justice in their circuits. Their pathways have become crooked for them; they do not know peace in every way of it. 9 Therefore justice has gone far from us, and righteousness will not reach us. We wait for light—behold, darkness; for brightnesses we walk in gloom. 10 We grope like the blind at a wall, and like those with no eyes we grope, like those stumbling at noon, like twilight in fat ones, like the dead. 11 We groan like bears, all of us, and like doves we moan and coo; we wait for justice, and there is no salvation—it has grown distant from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them. 13 transgressing and lying against the LORD, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And justice has turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has stumbled in the street, and uprightness is not able to enter. 15 And truth was missing, and turning from evil made one a victim, and the LORD saw it and it was evil in his eyes that there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no intercessor. And his arm saved him, his seed, and his Righteousness supported him. 17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for his clothing, and he wrapped himself with zeal as a robe. 18 According to their recompenses, so he will repay wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. 19 And they will fear the name of the LORD from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun, for he will come like a river; the wind of the LORD in distress will drive it. 20 And a redeemer comes to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD. 21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth—they will not depart from your mouth or from the mouth of your seed or from the mouth of the seed of your seed, says the LORD, from now until eternity.