Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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Psalms 78:36But they flattered him with their mouth,and lied to him with their tongue.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Isaiah 32:6For the fool will speak folly,and his heart will work iniquity,to practice profanity,and to utter error against the Lord,To make empty the soul of the hungry,and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 57:11"Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you do not fear me?
Jeremiah 2:13"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:17"Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way?
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 →