Separated from God
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
So that He will anot hear.
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in aempty words and speak lies;
bThey conceive1 evil and bring forth iniquity.
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
And they make haste to shed binnocent blood;
cTheir thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and ddestruction are in their paths.
And there is no justice in their ways;
bThey have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
Sin Confessed
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
aWe look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.
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Which is quite the opposite of what we heard in the morning sermon. Martin was imploring us to take that way of peace. But it says these people have made themselves crooked paths. They did not go on a way that was already laid out for them from God. They said, I want to go my own way. And God says, Okay, fine, you take that way. You will never know peace.
Now this passage makes me conclude that as well. It says it right there, humanity has never really known peace. Not the peace of God that He wants us to live. And Isaiah does a fantastic job here of tying their lack of peace with their sins. It was their sins that made peace impossible. Their iniquities were so contrary to the way of peace that it could never even begin. There was so much sin that had built up in their lifetimes that they had an absolute inability to acknowledge and follow the truth, which is another way of talking about the way of peace.
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