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| [1]BEHOLD, the LORD'S hand is not so short, that it cannot save; neither is his ear dull that it cannot hear; |
[1]Beholde, the Lordes hande is not so shortened that it can not helpe, neither is his eare so stopped that it may not heare |
| [2]But it is your iniquities that have separated you and your God; and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. |
[2]But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not |
| [3]For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. |
[3]For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse |
| [4]There is no one who calls for justice, neither is there any one who judges faithfully; they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive iniquity and bring forth grief. |
[4]No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill |
| [5]They hatch adder's eggs, and weave a spider's web; he who eats of their eggs shall die, and those which hatch out will be found to be vipers. |
[5]They breede cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe, who so eateth of their egges, dyeth: but if one treade vpon them, there commeth vp a serpent |
| [6]Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. |
[6]Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes |
| [7]Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; plunder and destruction are in their paths. |
[7]Their feete runne to euyll, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their counsels are wicked counsels, harme and destruction are in their wayes |
| [8]The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whosoever walks in them shall not know peace |
[8]But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace |
| [9]Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. |
[9]And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke |
| [10]We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope like men who have no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we groan as those who are near death. |
[10]We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead |
| [11]We all roar like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. |
[11]We roare all like beares, and mourne still like doues: we looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs |
| [12]For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; our iniquities are with us, and our sins are well known: |
[12]For our offences are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: yea we must confesse that we offende, and knowledge that we do amisse |
| [13]Transgressing and lying against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and devising in our heart words of falsehood. |
[13][namely] transgresse and dissemble against the Lorde, and fall away from our God, vsing presumpteous and trayterous imaginations, and casting false matters in our heartes |
| [14]Judgment is turned backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
[14]And therefore is equitie gone aside, and righteousnesse standeth farre of, trueth is fallen downe in the streete, and the thing that is playne and open, may not be shewed |
| [15]Yea, truth is hid, and understanding has departed from our mind; the LORD saw that there was no justice, and he was displeased |
[15]Yea the trueth is taken away, and he that refraineth hym selfe from euyll, must be spoyled: When the Lorde sawe this, it displeased hym sore that there was no equitie |
| [16]And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to help; therefore his arm brought salvation to him, and his righteousness sustained him. |
[16]He sawe also that there was no man righteous, and he wondred that there was no man to helpe hym: wherefore he helde hym by his owne power, and he sustayned hym by his owne righteousnesse |
| [17]For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, |
[17]He put righteousnesse vpon hym for a brestplate, he set the helmet of health vpon his head: He put on wrath in the steade of clothing, and toke ielousie about him for a cloke |
| [18]That he may seek vengeance upon those who hate him, and retribution to his adversaries, and to the islands he will render recompense. |
[18]Euen as when a man goeth foorth wrathfully to recompence his enemies, and to be auenged of his aduersaries, he wyll recompence and rewarde the Ilandes |
| [19]So shall they revere the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. For the oppressor shall come in like a flood, and the Spirit of the LORD shall humble him. |
[19]They shall feare the name of the Lorde from the rising of the sunne, and his maiestie vnto the going downe of the same, for he shall come as a violent water streame which the winde of the Lorde hath moued |
| [20]And a Saviour shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD. |
[20]But vnto Sion there shall come a redeemer, and vnto them in Iacob that turne from wickednesse, saith the Lord |
| [21]As for me, this is my covenant with you, says the LORD: my spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendant's descendants, says the LORD, from henceforth and for ever |
[21]I wyll make this couenaunt with them (saith the Lord:) My spirite that is vpon thee, and the wordes whiche I haue put in thy mouth, shall neuer go out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy childers chyldren, from this time foorth for euermore, worlde without ende, saith the Lorde |