1 [Ecce non est abbreviata manus Domini, ut salvare nequeat, neque aggravata est auris ejus, ut non exaudiat. 2 Sed iniquitates vestræ diviserunt inter vos et Deum vestrum; et peccata vestra absconderunt faciem ejus a vobis, ne exaudiret. 3 Manus enim vestræ pollutæ sunt sanguine, et digiti vestri iniquitate; labia vestra locuta sunt mendacium, et lingua vestra iniquitatem fatur. 4 Non est qui invocet justitiam, neque est qui judicet vere: sed confidunt in nihilo, et loquuntur vanitates; conceperunt laborem, et pepererunt iniquitatem. 5 Ova aspidum ruperunt, et telas araneæ texuerunt. Qui comederit de ovis eorum, morietur; et quod confotum est, erumpet in regulum. 6 Telæ eorum non erunt in vestimentum, neque operientur operibus suis; opera eorum opera inutilia, et opus iniquitatis in manibus eorum. 7 Pedes eorum ad malum currunt, et festinant ut effundant sanguinem innocentem; cogitationes eorum cogitationes inutiles: vastitas et contritio in viis eorum. 8 Viam pacis nescierunt, et non est judicium in gressibus eorum; semitæ eorum incurvatæ sunt eis: omnis qui calcat in eis, ignorat pacem. 9 Propter hoc elongatum est judicium a nobis, et non apprehendet nos justitia. Exspectavimus lucem, et ecce tenebræ; splendorem, et in tenebris ambulavimus. 10 Palpavimus sicut cæci parietem, et quasi absque oculis attrectavimus: impegimus meridie quasi in tenebris; in caliginosis quasi mortui. 11 Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes, et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus: exspectavimus judicium, et non est; salutem, et elongata est a nobis. 12 Multiplicatæ sunt enim iniquitates nostræ coram te, et peccata nostra responderunt nobis, quia scelera nostra nobiscum et iniquitates nostras cognovimus. 13 Peccare et mentiri contra Dominum, et aversi sumus ne iremus post tergum Dei nostri, ut loqueremur calumniam et transgressionem; concepimus et locuti sumus de corde verba mendacii. 14 Et conversum est retrorsum judicium, et justitia longe stetit, quia corruit in platea veritas, et æquitas non potuit ingredi. 15 Et facta est veritas in oblivionem, et qui recessit a malo, prædæ patuit. Et vidit Dominus, et malum apparuit in oculis ejus, quia non est judicium. 16 Et vidit quia non est vir, et aporiatus est, quia non est qui occurrat; et salvavit sibi brachium suum, et justitia ejus ipsa confirmavit eum. 17 Indutus est justitia ut lorica, et galea salutis in capite ejus; indutus est vestimentis ultionis, et opertus est quasi pallio zeli: 18 sicut ad vindictam quasi ad retributionem indignationis hostibus suis, et vicissitudinem inimicis suis; insulis vicem reddet. 19 Et timebunt qui ab occidente nomen Domini, et qui ab ortu solis gloriam ejus, cum venerit quasi fluvius violentus quem spiritus Domini cogit; 20 et venerit Sion redemptor, et eis qui redeunt ab iniquitate in Jacob, dicit Dominus. 21 Hoc fœdus meum cum eis, dicit Dominus: spiritus meus qui est in te, et verba mea quæ posui in ore tuo, non recedent de ore tuo, et de ore seminis tui, et de ore seminis seminis tui, dicit Dominus, amodo et usque in sempiternum.]
Isaiah 59 Clementine Vulgate
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- 1 Jeremiah 32:17; Isaiah 50:2; Numbers 11:23; Isaiah 65:24; Genesis 18:14
- 2 Proverbs 15:29; Jeremiah 5:25; Micah 3:4; Isaiah 1:15; Deuteronomy 31:17–18
- 3 Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 13:8; Jeremiah 2:34; Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:30
- 4 Job 15:35; Micah 7:2–5; James 1:15; Jeremiah 7:4; Jeremiah 7:8
- 5 Matthew 3:7; Isaiah 14:29; Proverbs 23:32; Matthew 12:34; Job 8:14
- 6 Jeremiah 6:7; Revelation 3:17–18; Isaiah 57:12; Job 8:14–15; Habakkuk 1:2–4
- 7 Romans 3:15–17; Proverbs 6:17; Mark 7:21–22; Proverbs 1:16; Lamentations 4:13
- 8 Isaiah 57:20–21; Romans 3:17; Isaiah 5:7; Luke 1:79; Psalm 58:1–2
- 9 Isaiah 5:30; Job 30:26; Micah 1:12; Jeremiah 14:19; Lamentations 5:16–17
- 10 Deuteronomy 28:29; Job 5:14; Lamentations 3:6; John 12:40; Proverbs 4:19
- 11 Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 9:1; Psalm 85:9
- 12 Ezra 9:6; Hosea 5:5; Jeremiah 14:7; Ezekiel 5:6; Hosea 4:2
- 13 Mark 7:21–22; James 3:6; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 48:8
- 14 Ecclesiastes 3:16; Habakkuk 1:4; Micah 3:9–11; Jeremiah 5:31; Isaiah 5:23
- 15 Micah 7:2; Hebrews 11:36–38; Jeremiah 7:28; 1 John 3:11–12; Romans 8:36
- 16 Ezekiel 22:30; Isaiah 64:7; Psalm 106:23; Psalm 98:1; Isaiah 63:3–5
- 17 Ephesians 6:17; Ephesians 6:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Romans 13:12–14; Isaiah 11:5
- 18 Jeremiah 17:10; Isaiah 63:6; Romans 2:6; Matthew 16:27; Nahum 1:2
- 19 Daniel 7:27; Psalm 113:3; Zechariah 4:6; Revelation 12:15–17; Psalm 22:27
- 20 Romans 11:26–27; Titus 2:11–14; Ezekiel 18:30–31; Acts 3:19; Hebrews 12:14
- 21 Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 10:16; Ezekiel 36:25–27; Jeremiah 32:38–41; Hebrews 8:6–13
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For while they remain, there remains in some sort enmity against God, and alienation from Him, which comes from what is evil in us; since Scripture does not speak falsely, which says, "Your sins separate between you and God." He does not then bestow on us His good things, except He take away our evil things.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
And again, I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed; and again, And now the Lord Almighty and His Spirit hath sent Me; and again, This is My covenant with them, saith the Lord, My Spirit which is upon thee; and again, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me, and the rest; and …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… Gentiles might enter in," in that other should happen what follows, "and so all Israel should be saved." For the Apostle too takes that testimony of Isaiah, where it is said, "There shall come out of Sion He who shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:" for the Jews, as it is here, "Who shall give salvation to Israel out of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
"Our years are passed in thought like a spider." We were labouring in things corruptible, corruptible works were we weaving together: which, as the Prophet Isaiah saith, by no means covered us. "The days of our years are in themselves," etc.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)