{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/59","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:03:32.600Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":59,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":58,"nextChapter":60,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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, it upheld him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,| says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"|As for me, this is my covenant with them,| says Yahweh. |My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed,| says Yahweh, |from henceforth and forever.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 59 (WEB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 59](https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/59)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/isaiah/59 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}