Isaiah 59:4

Translations

Modern

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Traditional

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Literal

No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case in truth, trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, conceiving trouble, and birthing iniquity.

Latin

Non est qui invocet justitiam, neque est qui judicet vere: sed confidunt in nihilo, et loquuntur vanitates; conceperunt laborem, et pepererunt iniquitatem.

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Hebrew

English

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Notes

Isaiah 59:4

calls for justice: Israel did not practice these qualities that are part of God’s nature and that he expects from people (Isaiah 1:21; see 25:1).

Isaiah 59:1–8

The people said the Lord could not rescue them, but the real issue was that they had not repented (Isaiah 59:20) and were still sinning.

Isaiah 59:1–20

The Lord alone will bring salvation. Like a warrior, he will enter the world to defeat his enemies and protect his holy people.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Micah 7:2–5
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
James 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Jeremiah 7:8
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
Psalm 7:13–14
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
Jeremiah 5:4–5
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Isaiah 59:13–14
…rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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