Isaiah 59:12
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, 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 away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
- KJV
- For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
- WEB
- 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:
- ASV
- For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
- DARBY
- For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:
- BLB
- For our transgressions are many before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions [are] with us, and our iniquities, and we know:
- ÅB
- For våre overtredelser er mange for deg, og våre synder vitner mot oss; våre overtredelser har vi for våre øyne, og våre misgjerninger kjenner vi:
- OTB
- For våre overtredelser er mange for ditt ansikt, og våre synder vitner mot oss. Våre misgjerninger er med oss, og vi erkjenner våre misgjerninger:
- B1930
- For våre overtredelser er mange for dig, og våre synder vidner mot oss; våre overtredelser har vi for våre øine, og våre misgjerninger kjenner vi:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezra 9:6
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Read in contextHosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:7
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Read in contextEzekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Read in contextHosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Read in contextEzekiel 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:2–12
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
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