Isaiah 59:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י כַפֵּיכֶם֙ נְגֹאֲל֣וּ בַדָּ֔ם וְאֶצְבְּעוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם בֶּֽעָוֺ֑ן שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ דִּבְּרוּ־שֶׁ֔קֶר לְשׁוֹנְכֶ֖ם עַוְלָ֥ה תֶהְגֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

Kî kappêkem nəgōʾălû in-dām and-ʾeṣbəʿôtêkem in-ʿāwōn śiptôtêkem dibbərû-šeqer ləšônəkem ʿawlāh tehgeh

Grammar Details

*Kî*: conjunction - for/because
*kappêkem*: noun, feminine dual construct with 2nd plural suffix - your palms/hands
*nəgōʾălû*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd plural - defiled/polluted
*dām*: noun, masculine singular - blood
*ʾeṣbəʿôtêkem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd plural suffix - your fingers
*ʿāwōn*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/guilt/sin
*śiptôtêkem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd plural suffix - your lips
*dibbərû-šeqer*: verb phrase, piel perfect 3rd plural + noun - have spoken falsehood
*ləšônəkem*: noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd plural suffix - your tongue
*ʿawlāh*: noun, feminine singular - injustice/wickedness
*tehgeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - mutters/utters

Word Meanings

*kappêkem*: your palms/hands
*nəgōʾălû*: defiled/polluted/stained
*dām*: blood/bloodshed
*ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/perversity
*dibbərû-šeqer*: spoken falsehood/lies/deception
*ʿawlāh*: injustice/wickedness/perversity
*tehgeh*: mutters/utters/speaks

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:21 : 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Ezek 7:23 : 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hos 7:3 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Mic 3:10-12 : 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matt 27:4 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
Ezek 35:6 : 6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Jer 9:3-6 : 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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