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ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

Explore the passage in Isaiah 59:1-3 that discusses the separation between the people and God due to their sins. Discover why the Lord did not hear them and the consequences of their actions. Gain insight into the importance of repentance and seeking reconciliation with God.

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ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

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  1. ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

  2. OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE SEPARATED FROM GOD V. 1-8 SINS CONFESSED V. 9-15 THE REDEEMER OF ZION V. 16-21

  3. READ: ISAIAH 59:1-3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.

  4. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1-3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?

  5. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 SEPARATED FROM GOD 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM? READ: ISAIAH 5:1-2 GOD'S DISAPPOINTING VINEYARD 1 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. 2 He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes. NKJV

  6. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 SEPARATED FROM GOD 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 6:10 10 "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed." NKJV READ: ISAIAH 41:20 20 That they may see and know, And consider and understand together, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

  7. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 SEPARATED FROM GOD 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 50:2 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stinkbecause there is no water, And die of thirst. NKJV

  8. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 1 Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? READ: ISAIAH 30:19 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you. NKJV READ: ISAIAH 58:9 9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.‘ NKJV READ: ISAIAH 65:24 24 "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.

  9. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: PSALMS 18:41 41 They cried out, but there was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them. NKJV READ: ISAIAH 1:15 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. NKJV

  10. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:1 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: JEREMIAH 5:24-25 24 They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest." 25 Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you. NKJV

  11. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:2 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: JEREMIAH 11:11-12 11 Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them. 12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. NKJV

  12. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:2 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: LAMENTATIONS 3:43-45 43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied. 44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through. 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. NKJV

  13. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:2 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: EZEKIEL 39:22-24 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward. 23 The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them."' NKJV

  14. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:2 SEPARATED FROM GOD 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: JOHN 9:31-32 31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. NKJV

  15. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: 2 KINGS 21:16 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV

  16. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: ISAIAH 2:8-9 8 Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made. 9 People bow down, And each man humbles himself; Therefore do not forgive them. NKJV

  17. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: ISAIAH 3:8-9 8 For Jerusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings Are against the LORD, To provoke the eyes of His glory. 9 The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves. NKJV

  18. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: JEREMIAH 9:4-5 4 "Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers. 5 Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity. NKJV

  19. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 SEPARATED FROM GOD 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. DID THE LORD HEAR THEM? WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: EZEKIEL 22:8-9 8 You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. 9 In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness. NKJV

  20. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:3 WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? READ: ROMANS 3:10-18 10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." NKJV

  21. READ: ISAIAH 59:4-5 SEPARATED FROM GOD 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

  22. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:4-5 SEPARATED FROM GOD 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

  23. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:4 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? READ: JOB 4:7-8 7 "Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, Those who plow iniquity And sow trouble reap the same. NKJV READ: JOB 15:35 35 They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit." NKJV

  24. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:4 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? READ: PSALMS 7:14-16 14 Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.

  25. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:4 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? READ: ISAIAH 29:20-21 20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off — 21 Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words. NKJV

  26. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:4 4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? READ: JAMES 1:13-15 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

  27. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:5 5 They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. WHAT WERE THEY DOING? WHY COMPARE THEM TO VIPERS & SPIDERS? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: PROVERBS 11:18 18 The wicked man does deceptive work, But he who sows righteousness will have a sure reward. NKJV

  28. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:5 5 They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. WHAT WERE THEY DOING? WHY COMPARE THEM TO VIPERS & SPIDERS? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: JOB 8:11-14 11 "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? 12 While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant. 13 So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, 14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web. NKJV

  29. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:5 5 They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. WHAT WERE THEY DOING? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHAT DID JOHN SAY TO THE PHARISEES? READ: MATTHEW 3:7-10 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, 9 and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  30. READ: ISAIAH 59:6-8 SEPARATED FROM GOD 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

  31. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6-8 SEPARATED FROM GOD 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?

  32. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: PSALMS 55:9-11 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it. 11 Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets. NKJV

  33. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: PROVERBS 4:14-17 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil. 15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on. 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. NKJV

  34. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands. WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO? READ: ROMANS 13:12-13 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. NKJV

  35. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO? READ: 1 TIMOTHY 6:3-5 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5 useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself. NKJV

  36. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO? READ: 2 TIMOTHY 2:16-19 16 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity." NKJV

  37. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:6 WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO? READ: 2 TIMOTHY 2:22-23 22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. NKJV

  38. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT DID MANASSEH DO? READ: 2 KINGS 21:16 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV

  39. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? READ: ISAIAH 1:15 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. NKJV READ: ISAIAH 1:21 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice;Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers. NKJV

  40. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT DOES THE LORD HATE? READ: PROVERBS 6:16-19 16 These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren. NKJV

  41. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO? READ: PROVERBS 24:1-2 1 Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; 2 For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking. NKJV

  42. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:11 11 My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city. READ: LAMENTATIONS 3:47-48 47 Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction. 48 My eyes overflow with rivers of waterFor the destruction of the daughter of my people. NKJV

  43. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? READ: MICAH 3:9-10 9 Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity, 10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity: NKJV

  44. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:7 7 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths. WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING? WHAT PROCEEDS FROM THEIR HEART? READ: MARK 7:20-23 20 And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man." NKJV

  45. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:8 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS? READ: JUDGES 5:6-7 6 "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways. 7 Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel. NKJV READ: PSALMS 125:5 5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. NKJV

  46. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:8 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? READ: PROVERBS 2:12-15 12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, 13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; NKJV

  47. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:8 8 The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS? READ: PROVERBS 28:18 18 Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, But he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall. NKJV READ: ISAIAH 57:20-21 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 "There is no peace,“ Says my God, "for the wicked." NKJV

  48. READ: ISAIAH 59:9-11 SIN CONFESSED 9 Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

  49. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 59:9-11 SIN CONFESSED 9 Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us. WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS? WHAT WERE THEY LOOKING FOR? READ: JEREMAIH 8:15 15 "We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and there was trouble! NKJV

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