Isaiah 59

¹Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;

²But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,

³For your hands are defiled with blood,

⁴None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth:

⁵They hatch cockatrice’ eggs,

⁶Their webs shall not become garments,

⁷Their feet run to evil,

⁸The way of peace they know not;

⁹Therefore is judgment far from us,

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind,

¹¹We roar all like bears,

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,

¹³In transgressing and lying against the Lord,

¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward,

¹⁵Yea, truth faileth;

¹⁶And he saw that there was no man,

¹⁷For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,

¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,

¹⁹So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,

²⁰And the redeemer shall come to Zion,

²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;