Isaiah 59:4

None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

In Context

3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

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Cross References

Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Their heart prepares deceit."

Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole,and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Psalms 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.They delight in lies.They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.Selah.

Proverbs 4:16For they do not sleep, unless they do evil.Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 33:11You will conceive chaff.You will bring forth stubble.Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

Isaiah 59:13transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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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