Isaiah 59:3

 Isaiah 59:3 

For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.

Expanded Form of Verse

(For your hands are stained (desecrated, soiled) with blood and your fingers with iniquity (guilt) (they hold onto the sin with a clenched fist); your lips have spoken lies (deception, falsehood, disappointment), and your tongue mutters (moans, growls, muse) injustice (unrighteousness)

Summary of Verse

 These people are practicing sin and iniquity, and they speak lies incessantly…but yet they claim to care about righteousness to the point of crying out, becoming angry, and irritable for justice to be served. Yet, as God points out, they are unjust and not walking in righteousness. He mentions in His word that they have their fists clenched onto their sins, not willing to let them go. They are, in essence, being stubborn about their sins, refusing to repent, but having no problem pointing out their own injustice. They are hypocrites.

Scriptures and Commentary

Explanation in color-coded fashion:

• verses will be in red, 
• my personal explanation, connections, and summaries will be in black
• the links will be in green

Isaiah 1:15 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.

Isaiah 1:21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! 

• Gossip and lies about others, to destroy their reputations and character, is a form of murder. This includes mental/emotional/psychological attacks on others. 

Many verses on the topic of Gossip

1st set of verses about gossip

2nd set of verses about gossip

3rd set of verses about gossip

Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

• Words and actions sinned against God and man 
• 1 John 3:18

Isaiah 6:5 Then I said: "Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts." 

• Revelation 19:11-16

Isaiah 9:15 The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. 

• A more intense understanding of this scripture can be seen in context.
• Isaiah 9:12-17

Isaiah 28:15 For you said, "We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol (hell). When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."

• The people are lying to themselves and trying to tell themselves that they are going to avoid any judgement, though God made it very clear there would be, They choose to believe in lies, and that all will be well,  as if nothing will happen due to their behaviors.
• Hebrews 10:26-39
• Jeremiah 17:7-10
• Psalm 10, 141, 53, 19

Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD's instruction. 

• God made it very clear to the people to love Him and love our neighbor. He gave them the ten commandments, statutes, ordinances, and laws to help them stay aligned with Him, but they chose to forget God and His ways. Therefore, choosing to love their abundance and idols, rather than the One True and Living God who provides, protects, and loves them. 
• Deuteronomy 6, 7, 8
• Proverbs 3:9, Malachi 3

Isaiah 59:7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains.'

• Ecclesiastes 3, 7, Matthew 5

Isaiah 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Ezekiel 7:23 ‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence.

Jeremiah 2:30 “In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:34 Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.

Hosea 4:2 By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

Isaiah 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly (sincerity), He who despises the gain of oppressions (gain from extortion), Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes (whose hand never takes a bribe), Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed (against murderous plots), And shuts his eyes from seeing evil: He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; Bread will be given him, His water will be sure.

• Isaiah 57

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jeremiah 9:3-6

“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord. 4 “Everyone take heed to his [a]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. 6 Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

Romans 3:10-18 10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable (worthless); There is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open tomb (graves); With their tongues they have practiced deceit (fraud, lies)”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing (a prayer for evil for another) and bitterness (resentful).” 15 “Their feet are swift (eager) to shed blood; 16 Destruction (ruin) and misery (hardship, distress) are in their ways (path); 17 And the way of peace (prosperity) they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear (respect, reverence, alarm, terror) of God before their eyes.”

Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness (indecent behavior (sexually and outwardly), 20 idolatry (anything you put above God), sorcery (magic, pharmakea, enchantment), hatred( emnity, hostility, alienation, severe opposition), contentions (discord, strife, wrangling, quarreling), jealousies, outbursts of wrath (rage, passion), selfish ambitions (factions, rivalries), dissensions (divisions, standing apart, disunion), heresies (factions, beliefs in false doctrine and ways not of God), 21 envy (grudge, spite, akin to jealousy), murders, drunkenness (deep drinking, intoxication), revelries (carousing (deep pleasure with loud drinking with uncontrolled behaviors), reveling (take great pleasure) feasting (overeating)), and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Jeremiah 2:30 “In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:34 Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.

Hosea 4:2 By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

Psalm 51

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