Isaiah 59:13 “rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking op…”

Isaiah 59:13

rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

American Standard Version

transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Geneva Bible 1599

In trespassing and lying against the Lord, and wee haue departed away from our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters.

Darby Translation

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Young's Literal Translation

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

Bible in Basic English

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

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Cross references

“lying”

Isaiah 32:6 Isaiah 48:8 Isaiah 57:11 Psalm 78:36 Jeremiah 3:10 Jeremiah 42:20

Isaiah 32:6 · BSB

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Isaiah 48:8 · BSB

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Isaiah 57:11 · BSB

Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?

Psalm 78:36 · BSB

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Jeremiah 3:10 · BSB

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 42:20 · BSB

For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’

“departing”

Hebrews 3:12 Isaiah 31:6 Psalm 18:21 Jeremiah 2:13 Jeremiah 2:19–21 Jeremiah 3:20

Hebrews 3:12 · BSB

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

Isaiah 31:6 · BSB

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

Psalm 18:21 · BSB

For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Jeremiah 2:13 · BSB

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:19–21 · BSB

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 3:20 · BSB

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

“speaking”

James 3:6 Jeremiah 5:23 Jeremiah 9:2–5 Matthew 12:34–36 Romans 3:10–18 James 1:15

James 3:6 · BSB

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Jeremiah 5:23 · BSB

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Jeremiah 9:2–5 · BSB

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Matthew 12:34–36 · BSB

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:10–18 · BSB

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

James 1:15 · BSB

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

Also

Isaiah 59:3–4 Titus 1:16 Isaiah 5:7 Proverbs 30:9 Matthew 10:33

Isaiah 59:3–4 · BSB

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Titus 1:16 · BSB

They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Isaiah 5:7 · BSB

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Proverbs 30:9 · BSB

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Matthew 10:33 · BSB

But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

14So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

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