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Isaiah 59:1-8

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Separation from God

1Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short

That it cannot save;

Nor is His ear so dull

That it cannot hear.

2But your wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,

And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

3For your hands are defiled with blood,

And your fingers with wrongdoing;

Your lips have spoken deceit,

Your tongue mutters wickedness.

4No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.

They trust in confusion and speak lies;

They conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.

5They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;

The one who eats of their eggs dies,

And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.

6Their webs will not become clothing,

Nor will they cover themselves with their works;

Their works are works of wrongdoing,

And an act of violence is in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil,

And they hurry to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,

Devastation and destruction are in their paths.

8They do not know the way of peace,

And there is no justice in their tracks;

They have made their paths crooked,

Whoever walks on them does not know peace.

A Confession of Wickedness