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Isaiah 59:3 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. "
Isaiah 59:3
Verse in Context
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1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so 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 mutters wickedness.
4 No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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Isaiah 59:1
"Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear."
Isaiah 59:2
"But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear."
Isaiah 59:4
"No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity."
Isaiah 59:5
"They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper."
Isaiah 59:6
"Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands."
Isaiah 59:7
"Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths."
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