1Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, Nor is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear;

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Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:17, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 50:2, Numbers 11:23

2But your iniquities have separated you from your God, And your sins have hidden his face from you, that he doth not hear.

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Jeremiah 5:25, Jeremiah 5:25, Proverbs 15:29, Proverbs 15:29, Micah 3:4

3For your hands are polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips speak falsehood, And your tongue muttereth wickedness.

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Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 1:15, Ezekiel 13:8, Ezekiel 13:8, Jeremiah 2:34

4No one bringeth his suit with justice, And no one pleadeth with truth; They trust in vain words, and speak lies; They conceive mischief, and bring forth destruction.

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Job 15:35, Job 15:35, James 1:15, Micah 7:2, Micah 7:5

5They hatch the eggs of the basilisk, And weave the web of the spider; He that eateth of their eggs dieth, And when one of them is crushed, a viper breaketh forth.

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Matthew 3:7, Matthew 3:7, Job 8:14, Proverbs 23:32, Isaiah 14:29

6Of their webs no garment is made, Nor can one cover himself with their work; Their works are works of iniquity, And the deed of violence is in their hands.

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Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18, Jeremiah 6:7, Isaiah 57:12, Revelation 3:17

7Their feet run to evil; They make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; Oppression and destruction are in their paths.

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Romans 3:15, Romans 3:17, Proverbs 6:17, Romans 3:15, Romans 3:17

8The way of peace they know not, Nor is there any justice in their steps; They have made for themselves crooked paths; Whoso goeth in them knoweth not peace.

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Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 57:21, Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 57:21, Romans 3:17

9Therefore is judgment far from us, And deliverance doth not overtake us. We look for light, and behold obscurity; For brightness, and we walk in darkness.

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Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 5:30, Job 30:26, Job 30:26, Micah 1:12

10We grope for the wall, like the blind; We feel our way, like those that are deprived of sight; We stumble at noonday as in the night; In the midst of fertile fields we are like the dead.

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Deuteronomy 28:29, Deuteronomy 28:29, Job 5:14, Job 5:14, Lamentations 3:6

11We groan, all of us, like bears, And like doves we make a continued moan; We look for judgment, and it cometh not; For salvation, and it is far from us.

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Isaiah 38:14, Isaiah 38:14, Ezekiel 7:16, Ezekiel 7:16, Isaiah 51:20

12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, And our sins testify against us! For our transgressions are not hidden from us, And our iniquities we know.

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Ezra 9:6, Ezra 9:6, Hosea 5:5, Hosea 5:5, Isaiah 1:4

13We have rebelled, and proved false to Jehovah; We have departed from our God; We have spoken violence and rebellion; Our hearts have conceived and brought forth words of falsehood.

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Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Hebrews 3:12

14And justice is turned back, And equity standeth afar off, For truth falleth in the gate, And rectitude cannot enter.

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Habakkuk 1:4, Habakkuk 1:4, Amos 5:11, Isaiah 5:23, Ecclesiastes 3:16

15Truth is not to be found, And he that departeth from evil is plundered; And Jehovah saw it, And it displeased him that there was no justice.

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Micah 7:2, 1 John 3:11, 1 John 3:12, Micah 7:2, 1 John 3:11

16He saw that there was none to help, And wondered that there was none to interpose; Then his own arm wrought salvation for him, And his righteousness it supported him.

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Ezekiel 22:30, Ezekiel 22:30, Isaiah 64:7, Psalms 98:1, Isaiah 64:7

17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And the helmet of salvation upon his head; He put on garments of vengeance for his clothing, And clad himself with zeal, as with a mantle.

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Ephesians 6:17, Ephesians 6:17, Ephesians 6:14, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:8

18According to their deeds will he repay them,—Wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; To the distant coasts will he repay a recompense.

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Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 17:10, Isaiah 63:6, Isaiah 63:6, Romans 2:6

19They in the west shall fear the name of Jehovah, And they in the rising of the sun his glory, When he cometh like a river straitened in its course, Which a strong wind driveth along.

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Daniel 7:27, Daniel 7:27, Psalms 113:3, Psalms 113:3, Revelation 12:15

20Yet shall a redeemer come to Zion, For them that turn from their transgressions in Jacob, saith Jehovah.

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Romans 11:26, Romans 11:27, Romans 11:26, Romans 11:27, Titus 2:11

21And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: My spirit, which is upon thee, And my words, which I have put in thy mouth, They shall not depart from thy mouth, Nor from the mouth of thy sons, Nor from the mouth of thy sons’ sons, saith Jehovah, From this time forth forever.

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Jeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:34, Jeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:34, Hebrews 10:16