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Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear
heavy, that it cannot hear: |
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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. |
3 | For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness. |
4 | 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. |
7 |
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.
Rom 3:15,16
Prov 1:16
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8 |
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.
Rom 3:17,18
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9 | 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. |
10 | We
grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we
stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. |
11 | 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. |
12 | 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; |
13 |
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. |
14 |
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth
is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
15 | 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. |
16 |
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. |
17 | 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 cloak. |
18 | According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence. |
19 | 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. |
20 |
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that
turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Rom 11:26
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21 | 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.
Rom 11:27
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