Isaiah 59:4
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
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Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
Psalms 7:15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Psalms 62:4Only — from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
Isaiah 33:11Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! — fire devoureth you.
Isaiah 59:13Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, 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 →