Isaiah
59:1-15
“1
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 noon day 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.”
Sound familiar? Look around
us today. Notice verse 2? See who this is written to and about? God's
people. We are so quick to point the finger at this old evil world
and surely they have their blame as well. But what of us, God's
people? Are we not living just as wickedly today as God's people did
in Isaiah's day? We have turned our backs on God and we wonder why
our nation is in the shape it is in.
Praise ye the Lord!!!
