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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
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Sin Corrupts Every Part
Commentators explain that Isaiah lists various body parts—hands, fingers, lips, and tongue—to illustrate how sin is not isolated but thoroughly corrupts a person's entire being and actions. As John Calvin notes, mentioning 'fingers' after 'hands' is a poetic way of saying that no part, not even the smallest, is free from iniquity. This comprehensive indictment leaves no room for excuses.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For your hands are defiled with blood — The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; …
19th Century
Anglican
Your hands are defiled with blood. —The accusation of the “grand indictment” of Isaiah 1:15 is reproduced verbatim.
16th Century
Protestant
For your hands. He now brings forward their actions, so that they may not practice evasion or question which sins have “caused the separat…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity
From a genera…
If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not accomplished for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but be…
13th Century
Catholic
Behold, the hand of the Lord is not shortened. Here the prophet presents the preparation for receiving salvation on the part of …
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