Isaiah 59:13

Sin Repentance Truth and honesty

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.

¹² 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;

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.

¹⁵ Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
KJV: 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.
WEB: transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
ASV: transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
DARBY: in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
BLB: Breaking faith and being false with YHWH, and removing ourselves from following our God; speaking [words of] oppression and revolt, conceiving and musing from the heart words of deception.

ÅB: Vi er falt fra Herren og har fornektet ham, vi har gått bort fra vår Gud, vi har talt om undertrykkelse og frafall, vi har undfanget løgnens ord i vårt hjerte og sagt dem ut.
OTB: Opprør og fornektelse av Herren, å vende seg bort fra vår Gud, å tale undertrykkelse og opprør, å unnfange og uttale løgnaktige ord fra hjertet.
B1930: Vi er falt fra Herren og har fornektet ham, vi har gått bort fra vår Gud, vi har talt om undertrykkelse og frafall, vi har undfanget løgnens ord i vårt hjerte og sagt dem ut.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Mark 7:21–22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Isaiah 48:8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Jeremiah 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
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Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
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