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Isaiah Chapter 59

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In this chapter God declares that His people have sinned and are in need of His justice, and He will judge them according to their deeds. He also promises that He will bring justice and will not turn away from them.

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(1) Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
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Isaiah 50:2Genesis 18:14Numbers 11:23Jeremiah 32:17Isaiah 63:1Hebrews 7:25Isaiah 6:10Matthew 13:15

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I Corinthians 10:21Ruth 4:6Job 23:9Ecclesiastes 1:15Isaiah 38:18Isaiah 44:18

(2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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Isaiah 50:1Deuteronomy 32:19Joshua 7:11Proverbs 15:29Jeremiah 5:25Isaiah 57:17Deuteronomy 31:17Deuteronomy 31:18Deuteronomy 32:20Ezekiel 39:23Ezekiel 39:24Ezekiel 39:29

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Nehemiah 9:2

(3) For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 1:21Jeremiah 2:30Jeremiah 2:34Jeremiah 22:17Ezekiel 7:23Ezekiel 9:9Ezekiel 22:2Ezekiel 35:6Hosea 4:2Micah 3:10Micah 3:11

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Jeremiah 9:5Zephaniah 3:13James 3:6Malachi 2:6

(4) None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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Isaiah 59:16Jeremiah 5:1Jeremiah 5:4Jeremiah 5:5Ezekiel 22:29Ezekiel 22:30Ezekiel 22:31Micah 7:2Micah 7:3Micah 7:4Micah 7:5Isaiah 30:12

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Jeremiah 9:5Ezekiel 33:13Hosea 10:13Malachi 2:6Job 15:35Job 15:31

(5) 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.
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Isaiah 14:29Proverbs 23:32Matthew 3:7Matthew 12:34

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Romans 14:3Romans 14:6Deuteronomy 22:6

(6) 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.
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Isaiah 28:18Isaiah 28:19Isaiah 28:20Isaiah 30:12Isaiah 30:13Isaiah 30:14Job 8:14Job 8:15Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 57:12Isaiah 64:6Romans 3:20

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Galatians 2:16James 2:18Psalms 86:8John 5:36John 10:32John 14:12

(7) 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.
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Proverbs 1:16Proverbs 6:17Romans 3:15Isaiah 59:3Jeremiah 22:17Lamentations 4:13Ezekiel 9:9Ezekiel 22:6Matthew 23:31Matthew 23:32Matthew 23:33Matthew 23:34

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Isaiah 55:8Isaiah 55:9Jeremiah 29:11Proverbs 1:16Job 20:2II Kings 24:4

(8) 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.
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Proverbs 3:17Luke 1:79Romans 3:17Isaiah 59:14Isaiah 59:15Isaiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:1Hosea 4:1Hosea 4:2Amos 6:1Amos 6:2Amos 6:3

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Matthew 5:22Exodus 28:30Jeremiah 6:16Revelation 10:6

(9) 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.
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Lamentations 5:16Lamentations 5:17Habakkuk 1:13Isaiah 5:30Job 30:26Jeremiah 8:15Jeremiah 14:19Amos 5:18Amos 5:19Amos 5:20Micah 1:12I Thessalonians 5:3

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John 12:35Job 10:22Isaiah 5:20Matthew 6:23John 8:12Ephesians 5:8

(10) 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.
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Deuteronomy 28:29Job 5:14Proverbs 4:19Jeremiah 13:16Lamentations 4:14Amos 8:9John 11:9John 11:10John 12:35John 12:40I John 2:11Lamentations 3:6

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Job 5:14Deuteronomy 28:29Matthew 15:14I Samuel 19:10Nehemiah 4:13Ezekiel 6:6

(11) 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.
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Isaiah 51:20Psalms 32:3Psalms 32:4Psalms 38:8Hosea 7:14Isaiah 38:14Job 30:28Job 30:29Jeremiah 8:15Jeremiah 9:1Ezekiel 7:16Psalms 85:9

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Isaiah 46:13

(12) 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;
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Isaiah 1:4Ezra 9:6Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 5:4Jeremiah 5:5Jeremiah 5:6Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:8Jeremiah 5:9Jeremiah 5:25Jeremiah 5:26

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Leviticus 16:21Job 35:6Leviticus 16:16Joshua 24:19Psalms 25:7Psalms 65:3

(13) 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.
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Isaiah 32:6Isaiah 48:8Isaiah 57:11Psalms 78:36Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 42:20Ezekiel 18:25Hosea 6:7Hosea 7:13Hosea 11:12Acts 5:3Acts 5:4

(14) And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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Isaiah 59:4Isaiah 5:23Isaiah 10:1Isaiah 10:2Psalms 82:2Psalms 82:3Psalms 82:4Psalms 82:5Ecclesiastes 3:16Jeremiah 5:27Jeremiah 5:28Jeremiah 5:31

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Job 36:17Job 37:23Psalms 89:14Proverbs 1:3Psalms 99:4Zechariah 8:16

(15) 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.
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Isaiah 48:1Psalms 5:9Psalms 12:1Psalms 12:2Jeremiah 5:1Jeremiah 5:2Jeremiah 7:28Hosea 4:1Hosea 4:2Micah 7:2Habakkuk 1:13Habakkuk 1:14

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Zechariah 8:16Judges 5:30

(16) 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.
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Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 64:7Genesis 18:23Genesis 18:24Genesis 18:25Genesis 18:26Genesis 18:27Genesis 18:28Genesis 18:29Genesis 18:30Genesis 18:31Genesis 18:32

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Isaiah 45:8Isaiah 46:13Isaiah 51:5Romans 9:30Romans 10:3Isaiah 63:5

(17) 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.
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Isaiah 11:5Isaiah 51:9Job 29:14Romans 13:12Romans 13:13Romans 13:14II Corinthians 6:7Ephesians 6:14Ephesians 6:17I Thessalonians 5:8Revelation 19:11Deuteronomy 32:35

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Isaiah 45:8Isaiah 46:13Isaiah 61:10Romans 9:30

(18) According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
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Isaiah 63:6Job 34:11Psalms 18:24Psalms 18:25Psalms 18:26Psalms 62:12Jeremiah 17:10Jeremiah 50:29Matthew 16:27Romans 2:6Revelation 20:12Revelation 20:13

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Joel 3:4Isaiah 66:6

(19) 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.
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Isaiah 11:9Isaiah 11:10Isaiah 11:11Isaiah 11:12Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 11:14Isaiah 11:15Isaiah 11:16Isaiah 24:14Isaiah 24:15Isaiah 24:16Isaiah 49:12

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Isaiah 45:6Numbers 2:3

(20) And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
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Obadiah 1:17Obadiah 1:18Obadiah 1:19Obadiah 1:20Obadiah 1:21Romans 11:26Romans 11:27Deuteronomy 30:1Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5

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Ezekiel 33:11

(21) 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.
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Isaiah 49:8Isaiah 55:3Jeremiah 31:31Jeremiah 31:32Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 31:34Jeremiah 32:38Jeremiah 32:39Jeremiah 32:40Jeremiah 32:41Ezekiel 36:25Ezekiel 36:26

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Genesis 17:7Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:29

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