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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 59
Israel is separated from their God by iniquity—Their sins testify
against them—Messiah shall intercede, come to Zion, and redeem the
repentant.
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1 BEHOLD, the LORD's
ahand is not bshortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot chear:
2 But your iniquities have
aseparated between you and your God, and your
bsins chave hid his face from you,
that he will not dhear.
3 For your hands are defiled with
ablood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth
for truth: they atrust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive bmischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet arun to
bevil, and they make chaste to
dshed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of apeace they know not;
and there is no bjudgment in their goings: they have
made them ccrooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace.
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9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither
doth ajustice overtake us: we wait for
blight, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we
cwalk in darkness.
10 We agrope for the wall like the
blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in
the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,
and our sins atestify against us: for our transgressions
are with us; and as for our iniquities, we
bknow them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice
standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and
aequity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
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16 ¶ And he saw that there was
ano man, and wondered that there was no
bintercessor: therefore his carm
dbrought esalvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on arighteousness as
a bbreastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head;
and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad
with zeal as a cloke.
18 According to their
adeeds, accordingly he will brepay, fury
to his adversaries, crecompence to his enemies; to the
islands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they afear the
bname of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the
rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
cSpirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against
hima.
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19a When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him
The Spirit of the LORD is that Spirit of Revelation which has supported the
restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ unto the world to be a standard or
Ensign of righteousness unto the world, which world was in a fallen and
apostate state of corrupt and unacceptable religion and of wickedness. Is it
any wonder that the process of the lefting up of this standard was so
opposed by the inspiration of Satan upon the hearts of men to so persecute
and even murder the Saints of God. And so on goes the battle as the Ensign
marches forth it is still opposed upon all fronts by the forces of evil. And
even the elite of God are mislead as to obligation and purpose in the support
of the kingdom.
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20 ¶ And the aRedeemer shall
bcome to cZion, and unto them that
dturn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my
acovenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that
is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
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