Separation from God
Behold, athe LORD’S hand is not so shortThat it cannot save,bNor His ear so 1impairedThat it cannot hear.Lit dull.Num 11:23; Is 50:2; Jer 32:17Is 58:9; 65:24; Ezek 8:182 But your awickedness has separated you from your God,And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does bnot hear.Is 1:15; 50:1Is 58:43 For your ahands are defiled with bloodAnd your fingers with wickedness with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing;Your lips have spoken blies,Your tongue mutters wickedness.Is 1:15, 21; Jer 2:30, 34; Ezek 7:23; Hos 4:2Is 28:15; 30:9; 59:134 aNo one sues righteously but for the sake of doing injury to others—to take some undue advantage, and bno one pleads his case in truth; but ratherThey ctrust in empty arguments and speak lies;They dconceive trouble and bring forth injustice.Is 5:7; 59:14Is 59:14, 15Is 30:12; Jer 7:4, 8Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Is 33:115 They hatch vipers’ eggs and aweave the spider’s webs;He who eats of their eggs dies,And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.Job 8:146 Their webs will not serve as clothing,Nor will they acover themselves with what they make;Their bworks are works of wickedness of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing,And the cact of violence is in their hands.Is 28:20Is 57:12; Jer 6:7Is 58:4; Ezek 7:117 aTheir feet run to evil,And they rush to shed innocent blood.bTheir thoughts are thoughts of wickedness of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing;Devastation and destruction are in their highways.Prov 1:16; 6:17; Rom 3:15-17Is 65:2; 66:18; Mark 7:21, 228 They do not know the away of peace,And there is bno justice in their tracks.They have made them into crooked paths;cWhoever walks on them does not know peace. Rom 3:15-18Luke 1:79Is 59:9, 11; Hos 4:1Is 57:20, 21
A Confession of Wickedness
9 Therefore ajustice is far from us,And righteousness does not overtake us.We bexpectantly hope for light, but only see darkness;We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.Is 59:14Is 5:30; 8:21, 2210 We agrope for a wall like the blind,We grope like those who have no eyes.We bstumble at midday as in the twilight;Among those who are healthy we are like cdead men.Deut 28:29; Job 5:14Is 8:14, 15; 28:13Lam 3:611 We all groan and growl like bears,And acoo sadly like doves;We hope for bjustice, but there is none,For salvation, but it is far from us.Is 38:14; Ezek 7:16Is 59:9, 1412 For our atransgressions are multiplied before You O LORD,And our bsins testify against us;For our transgressions are with us,And we know and recognize our wickedness our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing:Ezra 9:6; Is 58:1Is 3:9; Jer 14:7; Hos 5:513 Rebelling against and adenying the LORD,Turning away from following our God,Speaking boppression and revolt,Conceiving and cmuttering from the heart lying words.Josh 24:27; Prov 30:9; Matt 10:33; Titus 1:16Is 5:7; 30:12; Jer 9:3, 4Is 59:3, 4; Mark 7:21, 2214 aJustice is pushed back,And brighteous behavior stands far away;For truth has fallen in the city square,And 1integrity cannot enter.Lit straightforwardness.Is 1:21; 5:7Is 46:12; Hab 1:415 Yes, truth is missing;And he who turns away from evil amakes himself a prey.Lit was evil in His eyes.Is 5:23; 10:2; 29:21; 32:7Is 1:21-23
Now the LORD saw it,And it 1displeased Him bthat there was no justice.16 He saw that there was ano man,And was amazed that there was no one to intercede on behalf of truth and right;Therefore His bown arm brought salvation to Him,And His own righteousness sustained Him. Is 53:11; Col 2:9; 1+@John 2:1, 2Is 41:28; 63:5; Ezek 22:30Ps 98:1; Is 52:10; 63:517 For He the LORD put on arighteousness like a coat of armor,And salvation like a bhelmet on His head;He put on cgarments of vengeance for clothingAnd covered Himself with dzeal and great love for His people as a cloak. Eph 6:14, 17; 1+@Thess 5:8Eph 6:14Eph 6:17; 1 Thess 5:8Is 63:2, 3Is 9:7; 37:32; Zech 1:1418 aAs their deeds deserve, so He will repay:Wrath to His adversaries, retribution to His enemies;To the islands and coastlands He will repay.Job 34:11; Is 65:6, 7; 66:6; Jer 17:1019 So they will fear the name of the LORD from the awestAnd His glory from the brising of the sun.For He will ccome in like a narrow, rushing streamWhich the 1breath of the LORD drives overwhelming the enemy. Matt 8:11; Luke 13:29Or Spirit.Is 49:12Ps 113:3Is 30:28; 66:1220 “A aRedeemer will come to Zion,And to those in Jacob who bturn from transgression ,” declares the LORD.Rom 11:26Ezek 18:30, 31; Acts 2:38, 39
21 “As for Me, this is My acovenant with them,” says the LORD: “My bSpirit which is upon you writing the law of God on the heart, and My cwords which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your true, spiritual 1children, nor from the mouth of your children’s children,” says the LORD, “from now and forever.” Jer 31:33; Rom 11:26, 27; Gal 3:29; Heb 12:22-24Lit seed.Jer 31:31-34; Rom 11:27Is 11:2; 32:15; 44:3Is 55:11