Isaiah 59:4
2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- KJV
- None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- WEB
- No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- ASV
- None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- DARBY
- none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- BLB
- No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case in truth, trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, conceiving trouble, and birthing iniquity.
- ÅB
- Det er ingen som fremfører tale med rettferdighet, og ingen som fører rettssak på ærlig vis; de setter sin lit til usannhet og taler løgn, de har undfanget ulykke og føder elendighet.
- OTB
- Ingen roper på rettferdighet, og ingen fører sin sak ærlig. De stoler på tomme argumenter og taler falskhet; de unnfanger urett og føder ulykke.
- B1930
- Det er ingen som fremfører tale med rettferdighet, og ingen som fører rettssak på ærlig vis; de setter sin lit til usannhet og taler løgn, de har undfanget ulykke og føder elendighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Read in contextMicah 7:2–5
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
Read in contextJames 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Read in contextJeremiah 7:8
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:12
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
Read in contextMicah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Read in context