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 own arm brought salvation to Him; and His righteousness sustained Him.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

The people of the land have used oppression and practiced robbery, and they have troubled the poor and needy. Yea, they have oppressed the stranger without right.

The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

Trust

Therefore so says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rest on them;

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah 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.

Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.

They conceive

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

Yea, He has fitted him for instruments of death; He has made His arrows hotly pursue.

For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on 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 fully formed, brings forth death.

General references

Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.

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

And justice is driven back, and justice stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and right cannot enter.

And He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city;

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