Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, 2 and your fingers with depravity (moral evil). 1 Your lips have spoken lies. 2 Your tongue mutters wickedness. 1

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In The King James Version

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

In Context

2But your depravities (moral evils) have separated you and your God, 2 and your habitual sins ·missing the marks· have hidden his face from you, 2 so that he will not sh'ma ·hear obey·. 1

4No one sues in righteousness, 2 and no one pleads in truth. 1 They trust in vanity, 2 and speak lies. 1 They conceive mischief, 2 and give birth to vain striving of iniquity. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. 2 Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not sh'ma ·hear obey·. 2 Your hands are full of blood. 1

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 →

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