Isaiah 59 Is not the Lord's hand mighty to save? or hath he made his ear heavy, that it hear not?

Ottley⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Is not the Lord's hand mighty to save? or hath he made his ear heavy, that it hear not? ² But your sins separate between you [[and your God,]] and because of your sins hath he turned his face away from you, not to have mercy upon you. ³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers in sins; and your lips have spoken transgression, and your tongue doth meditate wrong-doing. ⁴ No man speaketh righteousness, nor is there any true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty words; for they have conceived trouble, and bring forth transgression. ⁵ They brake the eggs of asps, and weave the web of a spider; and he that trieth to eat of their eggs, when he breaketh it he findeth wind, and in it is a basilisk. ⁶ Their web shall not be for a garment; nor shall they be clothed with their works; for their works are works of transgression. ⁷ And their feet run after wickedness, swift to shed blood, and their reasonings (are) the reasonings of fools; destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, ⁸ And a way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are perverted, and they know not peace. ⁹ Therefore did their judgment depart from them, and righteousness shall not take hold of them; when (they) waited for light, darkness came upon them; they waited for a shining, and walked in midnight gloom. ¹⁰ They shall grope like blind men for a wall, and as though they had no eyes shall they grope; and they shall fall at noonday as though at midnight, they shall groan as dying men: ¹¹ As a bear and as a dove together shall they go: we waited for judgment, and there is none; salvation is far removed from us. ¹² For manifold is our transgression before thee, and our sins stand forth against us; for our transgressions are in us, and our wrong doings we have learnt. ¹⁴ And removed (our) judgment behind us, and righteousness standeth far off from us; for truth is consumed in their streets, and they could not go through by straight ways. ¹⁵ And truth is removed, and they changed their thought from understanding; and the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not, that there was no judgment. ¹⁶ And he saw, and there was no man, and he perceived, and there was none that would take hold; and he defended them with his arm, and with his mercy he supported them. ¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and put on an helmet of salvation upon his head, and clothed himself in a cloke of vengeance, and his clothing ¹⁸ As ready to requite, a requital of shame unto his adversaries. ¹⁹ And they from the setting (of the sun) shall fear the name of the Lord, and they from the rising of the sun his glorious name; for the anger of the Lord shall come like a rushing river, it shall come with wrath. ²⁰ And the deliverer shall come for Zion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. ²¹ And this is the covenant to them from me, saith the Lord; my spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not fail out of thy mouth, and out of the mouth of thy seed: the Lord hath spoken it, henceforth and for ever.