Isaiah 59:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For your hands{H3709} are defiled{H1351} with blood,{H1818} and your fingers{H676} with iniquity;{H5771} your lips{H8193} have spoken{H1696} lies,{H8267} your tongue{H3956} muttereth{H1897} wickedness.{H5766}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For your hands{H3709} are defiled{H1351}{(H8738)} with blood{H1818}, and your fingers{H676} with iniquity{H5771}; your lips{H8193} have spoken{H1696}{(H8765)} lies{H8267}, your tongue{H3956} hath muttered{H1897}{(H8799)} perverseness{H5766}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For yor hondes are defyled with bloude, and yor fyngers wt vnrighteousnesse: Yor lippes speake lesynges, & yor tonge setteth out wickednes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in your 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 bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to 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 leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us. 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall 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 there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her abominations.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD. 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

  • 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Isa 59:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

    13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

    14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

  • 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Isa 1:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

    16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Rom 3:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

    15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • 74%

    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Isa 3:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

    9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Jer 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • 13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 52:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

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    6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • 10 in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

  • 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 7 For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 18 Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • 9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

  • 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?

  • 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to idols, nor sworn deceitfully.

  • 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • 3 Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.