Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin. 1 Your lips speak lies and your tongue speaks maliciously. 1

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

In Context

2Your sinful acts, however, have separated you from your God, 1 and your sins have made him hide his face from you and from hearing you. 1

4No one calls in righteousness, and none pleads his case in truth. 1 They trust in empty words, and tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to sin. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:15So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; 1 even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; 1 your hands are full of blood. 1

Jeremiah 2:30I have punished your people in vain. They would not accept discipline. 1 Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destructive lion! 1

Jeremiah 7:8Behold! You are trusting in deceitful words that do not help you.

Jeremiah 9:3Yahweh declares, “They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues, 1 but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth. 1 They go from one wicked act to another. They do not know me.” 1

Jeremiah 22:17But there is nothing in your eyes and heart except worry for your unjust profit and for pouring out innocent blood, 1 for producing oppression and crushing of others.

Ezekiel 9:9He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood and the city full of perversions, since they say, 'Yahweh has forgotten the land,' and 'Yahweh does not see!'

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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