Isaiah 59
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 59, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isaiah 59:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid {his} face from you, that he will not hear. {have hid: or, have made him hide}
Isaiah 59:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah 59:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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None calleth for justice, nor {any} pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 59:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {cockatrice': or, adder's} {crushed...: or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper}
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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.
Isaiah 59:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
Isaiah 59:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The way of peace they know not; and {there is} no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. {judgment: or, right}
Isaiah 59:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, {but} we walk in darkness.
Isaiah 59:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}.
Isaiah 59:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 59:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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;
Isaiah 59:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 59:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isaiah 59:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {maketh...: or, is accounted mad} {it displeased...: Heb. it was evil in his eyes}
Isaiah 59:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he saw that {there was} no man, and wondered that {there was} no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isaiah 59:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance {for} clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isaiah 59:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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According to {their} deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. {deeds: Heb. recompences}
Isaiah 59:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. {lift...: or, put him to flight}
Isaiah 59:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 59:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As for me, this {is} my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that {is} upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isaiah 59:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.