Isaiah 59:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

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  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
  • Ezek 7:23 : 23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
  • Mic 3:10-12 : 10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing. 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us. 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord. 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil. 5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back. 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

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  • Isa 59:2
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    2But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Isa 59:12-14
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    12For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

    13We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

    14And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Isa 1:15-16
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    15And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

    16Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

  • Prov 6:17
    76%

    17Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Ps 144:8
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    8In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Ps 5:9
    74%

    9For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Isa 3:8-9
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    8For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Lam 4:14
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    14They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

    6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Ps 52:2-3
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    73%

    2Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

    3You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

  • Ps 5:6
    72%

    6You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

  • Ps 26:10
    72%

    10In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

  • Mic 3:10
    72%

    10They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

  • Jer 4:18
    71%

    18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Isa 1:4
    71%

    4O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

  • Jer 22:17
    71%

    17But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Ps 36:3
    71%

    3In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Ezek 22:9
    71%

    9In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

  • Matt 15:19
    71%

    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

  • Hab 1:13
    71%

    13Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

  • Ps 24:4
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    4He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • Isa 64:6
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    6And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Ps 65:3
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    3Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.