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.
And amoan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them:
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering afrom the heart words of falsehood.
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Isaiah 59:9.
Isaiah 59:9-15
Isaiah here points out that sin, which separates us from God, leads to more sin and more separation from God. It just gets worse and worse and worse as we play out this line of sin. So in a sinful society like ours, which is far from God, all you need to do is look out there, get on the Internet, and you will see how far from God they are. Violence and falsehood are rampant. It makes people blind, Isaiah says, lost, angry, depressed. They see widespread injustice. They see that few behave virtuously and truth takes a beating. It has been so abused, that is, truth, that Isaiah describes it like a person falling in the street, beaten down, bloody, wounded. Equity in a case like that, fairness, cannot enter a society like that. No matter what people say, they are not impartial. Everybody out there on both sides are doing all of their striving and yelling and arguing and beating up the other side for their own benefit.
So the final line is what is significant right now, there in verse 15, "He who departs from evil makes himself a prey." Truth is so rare now that people who try to do right, who try to speak truth, have a target on their back. They are the prey and the rest of the world, the sinful society around us, becomes a predator. People who follow the truth are so different from the world around them, and so good relatively, that they make people uncomfortable because they put them to shame. They make them feel guilty. So they lash out at them with fists, with knives, with guns.
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