Isaiah 59 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 59Injustice and Oppression to Be Punished

1 as though we were dead.

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and turning away from following our God,

talking oppression and revolt,

conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

14 Isa 1.21; 48.1 Justice is turned back,

and deliverance stands at a distance,

for truth stumbles in the public square,

and uprightness cannot enter.

15 Isa 1.21–23; 5.23 Truth is lacking,

and whoever turns from evil is despoiled.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him

that there was no justice.

16 Ps 98.1; Isa 63.5; Ezek 22.30 He saw that there was no one

and was appalled that there was no one to intervene,

so his own arm brought him victory,

and his righteousness upheld him.

17 Isa 63.2, 3; Eph 6.14; 1 Thess 5.8 He put on righteousness like a breastplate

and a helmet of salvation on his head;

he put on garments of vengeance for clothing

and wrapped himself in fury as in a mantle.

18 Isa 65.6, 7; 66.6 According to their deeds, so will he repay

wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies;

to the coastlands he will render requital.

19 Ps 113.3; Isa 66.12 So those in the west shall fear the name of the Lord,

and those in the east, his glory,

for he will come like a pent-up stream

that the wind of the Lord drives on.

20 Ezek 18.30, 31; Acts 2.38, 39; Rom 11.26, 27 And he will come to Zion as Redeemer,

to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the Lord.

21 Isa 44.3, 26; 54.10; Jer 31.31–34; 32.40 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.