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Isaiah 59

Isa. 59:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fory your hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
are defiled
ga'al (Hebrew #1351)
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Pronounce: gaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating)
with blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
, and your fingers
'etsba` (Hebrew #676)
something to sieze with, i.e. a finger; by analogy, a toe
KJV usage: finger, toe.
Pronounce: ets-bah'
Origin: from the same as 6648 (in the sense of grasping)
with iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
; your lips
saphah (Hebrew #8193)
probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Pronounce: saw-faw'
Origin: or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}
have spoken
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
lies
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
, your tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
hath muttered
hagah (Hebrew #1897)
to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder
KJV usage: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, X sore, speak, study, talk, utter.
Pronounce: daw-gaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1901)
perverseness
`evel (Hebrew #5766)
and (feminine) lavlah {av-law'}; or owlah {o-law'}; or .olah {o-law'}; from 5765; (moral) evil
KJV usage: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: eh'-vel
Origin: or lavel {aw'-vel}
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Isa. 1:15• 15And 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. 1:15)

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your hands.
Isa. 1:15,21• 15And 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.
 21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:15,21)
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Jer. 2:30,34• 30In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
 34Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these. (Jer. 2:30,34)
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Jer. 22:17• 17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)
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Ezek. 7:23• 23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. (Ezek. 7:23)
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Ezek. 9:9• 9And he said 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, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)
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Ezek. 22:2• 2And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations, (Ezek. 22:2)
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Ezek. 35:6• 6therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee. (Ezek. 35:6)
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Hos. 4:2• 2Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,--they break out; and blood toucheth blood. (Hos. 4:2)
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Mic. 3:10‑12• 10that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
 11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Mic. 3:10‑12)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. (Mic. 7:2)
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Matt. 27:4• 4saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* to that. (Matt. 27:4)
your lips.
Jer. 7:8• 8Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit. (Jer. 7:8)
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Jer. 9:3‑6• 3And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
 4Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.
 5And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.
 6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 9:3‑6)
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Ezek. 13:8• 8Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye speak vanity, and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:8)
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Hos. 7:3,13• 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
 13Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against me. And I would redeem them; but they speak lies against me. (Hos. 7:3,13)
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Mic. 6:12• 12For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (Mic. 6:12)
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1 Tim. 4:2• 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:2)
• Verses 3-8 give in full and terrible detail the sins that had separated them from their God, and we note that the indictments of verses 7 and 8 are quoted in Romans 3, in support of the sweeping statements of man’s utter ruin, to which we have already referred. (“Isaiah 59” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness: