These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 59
Tanakh 21 verses
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Behold, Yahweh’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot , Neither His ear heavy, that it cannot ;
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- 2 But your iniquities have separated Between you and your , And your sins have hid His from you, That He will not .
- 3 For your hands are defiled with , And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue muttereth wickedness.
- 4 None sueth in , And none pleadeth in ; They trust in vanity, and speak lies, They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch basilisks’ eggs, And weave the spider’s web; He that eateth of their eggs dieth, And that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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Their webs shall not become garments, Neither shall men cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.
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Jeremiah 6:7 Isaiah 57:12 Ezekiel 7:11 Romans 3:20-22 Isaiah 58:4 Psalm 58:2 Habakkuk 1:2-4 Amos 3:10 Genesis 6:11 Job 8:14-15 Micah 6:12 Micah 2:8 Romans 4:6-8 Zephaniah 3:3-4 Amos 6:3 Isaiah 30:12-14 Ezekiel 7:23 Micah 3:1-11 Isaiah 5:7 Micah 2:1-3 Isaiah 28:18-20 Isaiah 64:6 Zephaniah 1:9 Isaiah 30:1 Revelation 3:17-18 - 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent ; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- 8 The way of they not, And there is no right in their goings; They have made them crooked paths, Whosoever goeth therein doth not .
- 9 Therefore is justice far from us, Neither doth overtake us; We look for light, but behold darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, Yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; We stumble at noonday as in the twilight; We are in dark places like the dead.
- 11 We all growl like bears, And mourn sore like doves; We look for right, but there is none; For , but it is far off from us.
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For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are present to us, And as for our iniquities, we them:
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Ezra 9:6 Hosea 5:5 Jeremiah 14:7 Ezra 9:13 Nehemiah 9:33 Isaiah 3:9 Ezekiel 24:6-14 Ezekiel 5:6 Ezekiel 23:2-49 Isaiah 1:4 Hosea 7:10 Ezekiel 8:8-16 Daniel 9:5-8 Jeremiah 5:25-29 Hosea 4:2 Romans 3:19-20 Ezekiel 22:24-30 Jeremiah 5:3-9 Ezekiel 7:23 Matthew 23:32-33 Jeremiah 7:8-10 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Jeremiah 3:2 Ezekiel 16:51-52 Ezekiel 22:2-12 -
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Transgressing and denying , And turning away from following our , Speaking oppression and perverseness, Conceiving and uttering from the words of falsehood.
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Mark 7:21-22 Hosea 11:12 Jeremiah 2:13 Psalm 78:36 Isaiah 31:6 Jeremiah 17:13 Isaiah 48:8 Acts 5:3-4 Isaiah 59:3-4 Jeremiah 3:10 Jeremiah 3:20 Matthew 10:33 Hosea 6:7 Titus 1:16 Proverbs 30:9 Isaiah 32:6 James 1:15 Jeremiah 2:19-21 Jeremiah 42:20 Jeremiah 9:2-5 Ezekiel 18:25 James 3:6 Hebrews 3:12 Hosea 7:13 Hosea 1:2 Romans 3:10-18 Isaiah 57:11 Jeremiah 5:23 Psalm 18:21 Matthew 12:34-36 Isaiah 5:7 Jeremiah 32:40 Ezekiel 6:9 - 14 And justice is turned away backward, And standeth afar off; For hath stumbled in the broad place, And uprightness cannot enter.
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And is lacking, And he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice;
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Jeremiah 7:28 Jeremiah 29:26 2 Corinthians 5:13 Psalm 5:9 Genesis 38:10 Jeremiah 5:1-2 Acts 26:24 Mark 3:21 Romans 8:36 Micah 7:2 John 10:20 2 Chronicles 21:7 2 Kings 9:11 Psalm 12:1-2 Hosea 4:1-2 Hebrews 11:36-38 1 John 3:11-12 Acts 9:1 John 8:52 Acts 9:23 2 Samuel 11:27 Habakkuk 1:13-14 Hosea 9:7 Isaiah 48:1 - 16 And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought unto Him; And His , it sustained Him;
- 17 And He put on as a coat of mail, And a helmet of upon His head, And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
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According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; To the islands He will repay recompense.
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Isaiah 63:6 Jeremiah 17:10 Matthew 16:27 Job 34:11 Luke 21:22 Nahum 1:2 Romans 2:6 Lamentations 4:11 Ezekiel 5:13 Revelation 20:12-13 Isaiah 49:25-26 Isaiah 1:24 Psalm 21:8-9 Psalm 62:12 Ezekiel 38:18 Psalm 18:24-26 Revelation 19:15 Revelation 16:19 Luke 19:27 Ezekiel 6:12 Isaiah 66:15 Jeremiah 50:29 Isaiah 63:3 -
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So shall they the of from the west, And His from the rising of the sun; For distress will come in like a flood, Which the breath of driveth.
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- 20 And a redeemer will come to , And unto them that turn from transgression in , Saith .
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And as for Me, this is My with them, saith ; My 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 , from henceforth and for ever.
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Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 10:16 Ezekiel 36:25-27 Jeremiah 32:38-41 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Hebrews 8:6-13 Isaiah 51:16 Isaiah 44:3 John 7:16-17 Isaiah 61:1-3 John 4:14 John 7:39 John 3:34 Isaiah 55:3 Ezekiel 37:25-27 Romans 8:9 1 Corinthians 15:3-58 Isaiah 49:8 Ezekiel 39:25-29 Isaiah 11:1-3 John 1:33 John 17:8 2 Corinthians 3:8 John 8:38