Isaiah 59:3

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Summary

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Your hands

Your lips

Bible References

Your hands

And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.

For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.

Make the chain: for the land was filled with judgment of bloods, and the city was filled with violence.

And he will say to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, great exceedingly, and the land will be filled with blood and the city being filled with wresting: for they said, Jehovah forsook the land, and Jehovah saw not

Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and make her to know all her abominations?

For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, for I will make thee for blood and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hatedst not blood, and blood shall pursue thee.

Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.

Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity.

The merciful one perished from the earth, and none upright among men: they all will lie in wait for bloods; they will hunt each his brother with a net.

Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.

Your lips

Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye spake falsehood and saw a lie, for this, behold me against you, said the Lord Jehovah.

By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth.

In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;