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 to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

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

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

The good man hath perished from 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

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:

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

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

Trust ye 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 hath uttered perverseness.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellence: 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 belly prepareth deceit.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some 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 hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

General references

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

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

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