To The American People For The
American People
ISAIAH Chapter 59 Verse 1 through 21
Behold, the LORD'S
hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear:
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.
3 For your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue
hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any
pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
14 And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot enter.
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.
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.
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.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury
to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompence.
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.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to
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.