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Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

KJV

Manus enim vestræ pollutæ sunt sanguine, et digiti vestri iniquitate ; labia vestra locuta sunt mendacium, et lingua vestra iniquitatem fatur.

Vulgate

αἱ γὰρ χεῖρες ὑμῶν μεμολυσμέναι αἵματι, καὶ οἱ δάκτυλοι ὑμῶν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις, τὰ δὲ χείλη ὑμῶν ἐλάλησεν ἀνομίαν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα ὑμῶν ἀδικίαν μελετᾷ.

LXX

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

ASV

כִּ֤י כַפֵּי/כֶם֙ נְגֹאֲל֣וּ בַ/דָּ֔ם וְ/אֶצְבְּעוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם בֶּֽ/עָוֺ֑ן שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ דִּבְּרוּ שֶׁ֔קֶר לְשׁוֹנְ/כֶ֖ם עַוְלָ֥ה תֶהְגֶּֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 31×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
י
y
noun · 177×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יִתְגָּאַ֛ל
ytg'l
verb · 11×
יֶהְגֶּ֣ה
yhgh
verb · 25×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כַּ֥ף
kp
noun · 191×
ם
m
noun · 116×
ם
m
noun · 230×
עַוְלָֽה
'vlh
noun · 52×
שָֽׁקֶר
shqr
noun · 110×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eph 4:25 — Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
  • Ezek 7:23 — Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
  • Ezek 9:9 — Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth
  • Ezek 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.
  • Ezek 35:6 — Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
  • Hos 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Hos 7:13 — Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
  • Isa 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 1:21 — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isa 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 57:11 — And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
  • Isa 58:9 — Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
  • Isa 59:4 — None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Jer 2:30 — In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Jer 2:34 — Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
  • Jer 7:8 — Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
  • Jer 9:3 — And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
  • Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
  • Mic 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Mic 6:12 — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Mic 7:2 — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Prov 2:12 — To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
  • Prov 6:17 — A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Ps 106:39 — Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
  • Ps 140:3 — They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Rom 3:13 — Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: