13 In trespassing and lying against the Lord, and we have departed away from our God, and have spoken of cruelty and rebellion, conceiving and uttering out of the heart [a]false matters.

14 Therefore [b]judgment is turned backward, and justice standeth far off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

15 Yea, truth faileth, and he that refraineth from evil, maketh himself [c]a prey: and when the Lord saw it, it displeased him, that there was no judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:13 To wit, against our neighbors.
  2. Isaiah 59:14 There is neither justice nor uprightness among men.
  3. Isaiah 59:15 The wicked will destroy him.

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