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938 Prophecy of Isaias

not thy own flesh. Chapter 59

8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morn- Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened
ing, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that
justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of it cannot hear.
the Lord shall gather thee up. 2 But your iniquities have divided between you
and your God, and your sins have hid his face
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall
from you that he should not hear.
hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and
am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the
your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken
midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger,
lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.
and to speak that which profiteth not.
4 There is none that calleth upon justice, nei-
10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the ther is there any one that judgeth truly: but
hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vani-
shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy dark- ties: they have conceived labour, and brought
ness shall be as the noonday. forth iniquity.
5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have
11 And the Lord will give thee rest continu- woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of
ally, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought
deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a wa- out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
tered garden, and like a fountain of water whose 6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither
waters shall not fail. shall they cover themselves with their works:
their works are unprofitable works, and the work
12 And the places that have been desolate for
of iniquity is in their hands.
ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to
foundation of generation and generation: and
shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprof-
thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences,
itable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in
turning the paths into rest.
their ways.
8 They have not known the way of peace,
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sab-
bath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and there is no judgment in their steps: their
paths are become crooked to them, every one
and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of
the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and jus-
dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not
tice shall not overtake us. We looked for light,
found, to speak a word:
and behold darkness: brightness, and we have
14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, walked in the dark.
and I will lift thee up above the high places of 10 We have groped for the wall, and like the
the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we
of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are
hath spoken it. in dark places, as dead men.