Yeshayah 59 - The Orthodox Jewish Bible(TOJB2011)

1Behold, the Yad Hashem is not too short, that it cannot save;

neither His ozen (ear) too kaved (hard, insensitive, heavy, dull) that it cannot hear;

2But your avonot (iniquities) have separated you and Eloheichem,

and your chattot (sins) have concealed His face from you,

that He will not hear.

3For your hands are defiled and polluted with dahm,

and your fingers with avon (iniquity);

your lips have spoken sheker,

your leshon (tongue) hath muttered avlah (perverseness, wickedness, iniquity, lashon hora).

4None calleth b'tzedek (in righteousness),

nor any pleadeth b'emunah (in faithfulness, in truth);

they trust in tohu (nothingness),

maketh himself a prey;

And Hashem saw it,

and it was displeasing in His sight

that there was no mishpat (justice).

16And He saw that there was no ish (man),

and was appalled that there was no Mafgi'a (Intercessor);

therefore His own Zero'a (Arm) wrought Salvation unto Him;

and His own tzedakah (righteousness) He relied on.

17For He put on tzedakah as breastplate armor,

and a helmet of Yeshu'ah (Salvation, Saving Power) upon His rosh;

and He put on the bigdei nakam (garments of vengeance) for a uniform,

and was clad with kinah (zeal) as a me'il (mantle, cloak).

18According to their gemulot (deeds, dealings), so He will repay,

chemah (fury, wrath) to His adversaries, gemul (recompence) to His oyevim (enemies);

to the iyim (islands) He will repay gemul (recompence, due).

19So shall they fear the Shem Hashem from the ma'arav (west),

and His kavod from the rising of the shemesh.

When the enemy shall come in like a nahar (flood, river),

the Ruach of Hashem shall lift up a standard against him.

20And the Go'el (Redeemer, Moshiach) shall come to Tziyon,

and unto them that make teshuva and turn from peysha (rebellion) in Ya'akov,

saith Hashem.

21As for Me, this is My Brit (Covenant) with them, saith Hashem; My Ruach that is upon thee, and My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy zera, nor out of the mouth of the zera of thy zera, saith Hashem, from henceforth and ad olam (forever).