Isaiah 59Isaiah59

Berean Standard BibleKing James Version

1. Sin Separates Us from God

   (Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Romans 3:9–20)

2. 1BSBSurely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.KJVKJV: Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
3. 2BSBBut your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.KJVKJV: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
4. 3BSBFor your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.KJVKJV: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
5. 4BSBNo one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.KJVKJV: None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
6. 5BSBThey hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.KJVKJV: They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
7. 6BSBTheir cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.KJVKJV: Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
8. 7BSBTheir feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.KJVKJV: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
9. 8BSBThe way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.KJVKJV: The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
10. 9BSBTherefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.KJVKJV: Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
11. 10BSBLike the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.KJVKJV: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
12. 11BSBWe all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.KJVKJV: We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
13. 12BSBFor our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:KJVKJV: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
14. 13BSBrebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.KJVKJV: 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.
15. 14BSBSo justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.KJVKJV: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
16. 15BSBTruth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.KJVKJV: Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
17. 16BSBHe saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.KJVKJV: 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.
18. 17BSBHe put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.KJVKJV: For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

19. The Covenant of the Redeemer

20. 18BSBSo He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.KJVKJV: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
21. 19BSBSo shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.KJVKJV: So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
22. 20BSB“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.KJVKJV: And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
23. 21BSB“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.KJVKJV: As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.