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Isaiah 59

1 The wicked perish through their own iniquities. 12 The confession of sinnes. 16 God alone wil preserve his Church, though all men fail.
1.Behold, *the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can not save: neither is his ear heavy, that it can not hear.
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 ablood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue hath murmured iniquity.
4.No man calleth for justice: no man bcontendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, and speak vain things: they conceive mischief, and cbring forth iniquity.
5.They hatch cockatrice deggs, and weave the spider’s eweb: he that eateth of their eggs, dyeth, and that which is trod upon, breaketh out into a serpent.
6.Their webs shalbe no garment, neither shal they cover them selves with their labours: for their works are works of iniquity, and the work of crueltie is in their hands.
7.Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood · their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
8.The way of peace they know not, and there is none equity in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein, shal not know peace.
9.Therefore is fjudgement far from us, neither doeth gjustice come near unto us: we wait for light, but lo, it is darkness, for brightness: but we walk in darkness.
10.We grope for the wall like the hblind, and we grope as one without eyes: we stumble at the none day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead men.
11.We roar all like lbears, and mourn like doves: we look for equity, but there is none: for health, but it is far from us.
12.For our trespasses are many before thee, and our ksins testify against us: for our trespasses are with us, and we know our iniquities.
13.In trespassing and lying against the Lord, and we have departed away from our God, and have spoken of cruelty and rebellion, concerning and uttering out of the heart false lmatters.
14.Therefore mjudgement is turned backward, & justice standeth far off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter.
15.Yea, truth faileth, and he that refraineth from evil, maketh him self na prey: and when the Lord saw it, it displeased him, that there was no judgement.
16.And when he saw that there was no man, he wondered that none would offer him self. oTherefore his arm did psave it, and his righteousness it self did sustain it.
17.For he put on righteousness, as an habergeon, and an qhelmet of salvation upon his head, and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18.As to make recompense, as to requite the fury of the adversaries with a recompense to his enemies: he wil fully repair the rylands.
19.So shal they fear the Name of the Lord from the West, and his glorie from the rising of the sun: for the enemie shal scome like a flood: but the Spirit of the Lord shal chase him away.
20.And the Redeemer shal come unto Zión, and unto tthem that turn from iniquity in Jakkób, saith the Lord.
21.And I wil make this my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words, which I have put in thy mouth, ushal not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of the seed of thy seed, saith the Lord, from hence forth even for ever.

Notes

1-*.
Num. 11.23, Ch. 50.2.
2-*.
Jer. 5.25.
3-a.
Read Ch. 1.15.
4-b.
All men wink at the injuries and oppressions, and none go about to remedy them.
4-c.
According to their wicked devises, they hurt their neighbours.
5-d.
Whatsoever comes from them, is poison and brings death.
5-e.
They are profitable to no purpose.
9-f.
That is, God’s vengeance to punish our enemies.
9-g.
God’s protection to defend us.
10-h.
We are altogether destitute of counsel and can find no end of our miseries.
11-i.
We express our sorrows by outward signs, some more some less.
12-k.
This confession is general to the Church to obtain remission of sins, and the Prophets did not exempt themselves from the same.
13-l.
To wit, against our neighbours.
14-m.
There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.
15-n.
The wicked will destroy him.
16-o.
Meaning, to do justice and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.
16-p.
That is, his Church or his arm did help itself, and did not seek aid of any other.
17-q.
Signifying that God has all means at hand to deliver his Church, and to punish their enemies.
18-r.
To wit, your enemies, which dwell in divers places, and beyond the sea.
19-s.
He shows that there shall be great affliction in the Church, but God will ever deliver his.
20-t.
Whereby he declares that the true deliverance from sin and Satan belongs to none, but to the children of God, whom he justifies.
21-u.
Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church forever.