Isaiah 59:13

In rebelling against and kachash (denying) Hashem, 1 and nasog (turning away) from Eloheinu, 1 speaking oshek (oppression) and sarah (revolt), 1 conceiving and uttering from the lev (heart) divrei sheker (words of falsehood). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12Because peysha'einu (our rebellions) have multiplied before Thee, 1 and chattoteinu (our sins) testify against us; 1 for peysha'einu are still with us; 1 and as for avonoteinu (our iniquities), we acknowledge them: 1

14And mishpat (justice) is turned back, 1 and tzedakah (righteousness) standeth afar off; 1 for emes (truth) is fallen in the rechov (street), 1 and nacho'ach (honesty) cannot enter. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, 1 and they lied unto Him with their leshon. 1

Isaiah 5:7For the Kerem Hashem Tzva'os 1 is Bais Yisroel, 1 and the Ish Yehudah 1 are the planting of His delight; 1 and He looked for mishpat (justice), 1 but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness); 1 for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze'akah (cry of distress). 1

Isaiah 32:6For the naval will speak foolishness, 1 and his lev will work evil, to practise khonef (hypocrisy), 1 and to utter to'ah (error, perversity) against Hashem, 1 to leave unsatisfied the nefesh of the ra'av (hungry), 1 and he will cause the drink of the tzameh (thirsty) to fail. 1

Isaiah 57:11And of whom hast thou dreaded or feared, 1 that thou hast lived a lie, 1 and hast not remembered Me, 1 nor laid it to thy lev (i.e., pondered it)? 1 Have not I held My peace me'olam (even from of old), 1 and thou fearest Me not? 1

Jeremiah 2:13For Ami have committed shtayim ra'ot (two evils): 1 they have forsaken Me, the fountain of Mayim Chayim, 1 and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, 1 that can hold no mayim. 1

Jeremiah 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, 1 in that thou hast forsaken Hashem Eloheicha, 1 when He led thee by the derech? 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:10-16

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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