Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled and polluted with dahm, 1 and your fingers with avon (iniquity); 1 your lips have spoken sheker, 1 your leshon (tongue) hath muttered avlah (perverseness, wickedness, iniquity, lashon hora). 1
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Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, 1 I will hide Mine eyes from you; 1 yea, when ye make many tefillah, 1 I will not hear; 1 your hands are full of damim. 1
Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your banim; 1 they received no musar; + 2:30 cf Isa 53:5 1 your own cherev hath devoured your nevi'im, 1 like a destroying lion. 1
Jeremiah 7:8Hinei, ye trust in divrei sheker (lying words), that are worthless.
Jeremiah 9:3Be ye shomer every one over his re'a (neighbor, friend) 1 and trust ye not in kol ach (any brother); 1 for kol ach will ya'akov (utterly supplant, deceive), 1 and every re'a (neighbor) will holech rakhil (walk as the slanderer, gossiper). 1
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eynayim (eyes) and thine lev 1 are but for thy betza (covetousness, greed) 1 and for to shed dahm hanaki (innocent blood), 1 and for oshek (oppression), and for merutzah (extortion, persecution), to do it.
Ezekiel 9:9Then He said unto me, The avon Bais Yisroel and Yehudah is exceeding great, and HaAretz is full of damim, and the Ir full of injustice; for they say, Hashem hath forsaken Ha'Aretz, and Hashem seeth not.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9
The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 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… Read the whole commentary →