English / ERV
Isaiah 59
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Look, the LORD’s power is enough to save you. He can hear you when you ask him for help.
- 2It is your sins that separate you from your God. He turns away from you when he sees them.
- 3That’s because your hands are covered with blood from the people you murdered. You tell lies and say evil things.
- 4You can’t be trusted, even in court. You lie about each other and depend on false arguments to win your cases. You create pain and produce wickedness.
- 5You hatch evil, like eggs from a poisonous snake. Anyone who eats the eggs will die. And if you break one of them open, a poisonous snake will come out. Your lies are like spider webs.
- 6They cannot be used for clothes, and you cannot cover yourself with them. Your hands are always busy sinning and hurting others.
- 7Your feet run toward evil. You are always ready to kill innocent people. You think of nothing but evil. Everywhere you go you cause trouble and ruin.
- 8You don’t know how to live in peace. You don’t do what is right and fair. You are crooked, and anyone who lives like that will never know true peace.
- 9All fairness and goodness is gone. There is only darkness around us, so we must wait for the light. We hope for a bright light, but all we have is darkness.
- 10We are like people without eyes. We walk into walls like blind people. We stumble and fall as if it was night. Even in the daylight, we cannot see. At noontime, we fall like dead men.
- 11We are always complaining; we growl like bears and moan like doves. We are waiting for justice, but there is none. We are waiting to be saved, but salvation is still far away.
- 12That’s because we committed crimes against our God. Our own sins speak out against us. We know we are guilty. We know we have sinned.