Isaiah

¹ Behold, the hand of Yahweh is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.

² And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

³ And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken a lie; Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

⁴ They trust in confusion and speak worthlessness; They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

⁵ He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

⁶ Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of wickedness, And a deed of violence is in their hands.

⁷ And they are quick to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

⁸ And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in thick darkness.

¹⁰ We grope like those who have no eyes; We stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

¹¹ And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

¹² And our sins answer against us; For our transgressions are with us, And we know our iniquities:

¹³ And turning back from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

¹⁴ And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And rightness cannot enter.

¹⁵ And he who turns aside from evil makes himself plunder. Then Yahweh saw, And it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice.

¹⁶ And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, And His righteousness upheld Him.

¹⁷ And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

¹⁸ Wrath to His adversaries, what is deserved to His enemies; To the coastlands He will pay what they deserve.

¹⁹ And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream Which the wind of Yahweh makes flee.

²⁰ And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares Yahweh.

²¹ “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says Yahweh: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, nor from the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from now and forever.”