Isaiah 59:3 “For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;…”

Isaiah 59:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

World English Bible

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

American Standard Version

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

Geneva Bible 1599

For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies and your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.

Darby Translation

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:

Young's Literal Translation

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Bible in Basic English

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

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Cross references

“your hands”

Isaiah 1:15 Jeremiah 2:34 Isaiah 1:21 Jeremiah 2:30 Ezekiel 7:23 Ezekiel 9:9

Isaiah 1:15 · BSB

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Jeremiah 2:34 · BSB

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Isaiah 1:21 · BSB

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Ezekiel 7:23 · BSB

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 9:9 · BSB

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

“your lips”

Ezekiel 13:8 Jeremiah 7:8 Hosea 7:13 Micah 6:12 Jeremiah 9:3–6 Hosea 7:3

Ezekiel 13:8 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 7:8 · BSB

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Hosea 7:13 · BSB

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

Micah 6:12 · BSB

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

Jeremiah 9:3–6 · BSB

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Hosea 7:3 · BSB

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

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

In context

2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

4No 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.

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