Isaiah 59:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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 15:35 : 35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
  • Isa 30:12 : 12 Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
  • Jer 7:4 : 4 Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah `are' they!
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.
  • Ezek 22:29-31 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment. 30 And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found. 31 And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
  • Mic 7:2-5 : 2 Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net. 3 On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up. 4 Their best one `is' as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity. 5 Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.
  • Job 15:31 : 31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood. 14 And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,
  • Isa 59:16 : 16 And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness -- it sustained Him.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God. 5 I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.
  • Ps 7:13-14 : 13 Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh. 14 Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

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

  • Isa 59:13-15
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    13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

    14 And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

    15 And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

    6 thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Isa 59:5-9
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    5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

    6 Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands.

    7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

    8 A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

    9 Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

  • Job 15:35
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    35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14 Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2 Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

    3 On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Hos 4:1-2
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    1 `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife `is' to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

    2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Rom 3:11-13
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    11 There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

    12 All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

    13 A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

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    3 The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

    4 Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

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    8 Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

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    8 Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand `is' a right hand of falsehood.

  • Ps 58:2-3
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    2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

    3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

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    3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4 Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

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    3 Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.

  • Hos 10:4
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    4 They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

  • Isa 64:7
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    7 And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.

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    2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

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    3 With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

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    5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

  • Mic 3:11
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    11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

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    13 For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,

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    23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

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    7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,