Isaiah 59:4
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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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 mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Read in contextMicah 7:2–5
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Read in contextJames 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:4
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:8
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Read in contextMicah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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