Isaiah 59:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Calleth

Trust

And speak

Isaiah 59:3

Psalm 62:4

They conceive

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Calleth

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.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if you can find a man, if there is any that executes justice, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have oppressed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

The godly man has perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Trust

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward.

Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

And speak

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

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

They conceive

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.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their heart prepares deceit.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

General references

Behold, he brought forth iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.