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ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
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JOEL
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HOSEA
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MICAH
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AMOS
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ISAIAH
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NAHUM
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ZEPHANIAH
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JEREMIAH
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DANIEL
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HABAKKUK
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EZEKIEL
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OBADIAH
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EZRA
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HAGGAI
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ZECHARIAH
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ESTHER
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NEHEMIAH
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MALACHI
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KING / EVENT - DATE
TIGLATH-PILESER
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HEZEKIAH (JUDAH)
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SHALMANESER
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ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?
SENNACHERIB
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH)
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BELSHAZZAR
CYRUS
BABYLON DESTROYED
DARIUS
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
SEPARATED FROM GOD
V. 1-8
SINS CONFESSED
V. 9-15
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
V. 16-21
READ:
ISAIAH 59:1-3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1-3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
SEPARATED FROM GOD
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 5:1-2
GOD'S DISAPPOINTING VINEYARD
1
Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my
Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a
vineyard On a very fruitful hill.
2
He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And
planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its
midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it
to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild
grapes.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
SEPARATED FROM GOD
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 6:10
10
"Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears
heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed."
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 41:20
20
That they may see and know, And consider and
understand together, That the hand of the LORD has
done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
SEPARATED FROM GOD
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 50:2
2
Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I
called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened
at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to
deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make
the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is
no water, And die of thirst.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
1
Behold, the LORD‘S hand is not shortened, That it
cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 30:19
19
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you
at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will
answer you.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 58:9
9
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.‘ NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 65:24
24
"It shall come to pass That before they call, I will
answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
PSALMS 18:41
41
They cried out, but there was none to save; Even
to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 1:15
15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My
eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:1
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 5:24-25
24
They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the
LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the
latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed
weeks of the harvest."
25
Your iniquities have turned these things away, And
your sins have withheld good from you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:2
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 11:11-12
11
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will
surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able
to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen
to them.
12
Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they
offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time
of their trouble.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:2
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 3:43-45
43
You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued
us; You have slain and not pitied.
44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That
prayer should not pass through.
45
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:2
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
EZEKIEL 39:22-24
22
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the
LORD their God from that day forward.
23
The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel
went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were
unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave
them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by
the sword.
24
According to their uncleanness and according to
their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden
My face from them."'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:2
SEPARATED FROM GOD
2
But your iniquities have separated you from your
God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So
that He will not hear.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
JOHN 9:31-32
31
Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but
if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He
hears him.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:16
16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent
blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to
another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in
doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:8-9
8
Their land is also full of idols; They worship the
work of their own hands, That which their own fingers
have made.
9
People bow down, And each man humbles himself;
Therefore do not forgive them. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
ISAIAH 3:8-9
8
For Jerusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen,
Because their tongue and their doings Are against the
LORD, To provoke the eyes of His glory.
9
The look on their countenance witnesses against
them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not
hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon
themselves.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 9:4-5
4
"Everyone take heed to his 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. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
SEPARATED FROM GOD
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, And your
fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your
tongue has muttered perversity.
DID THE LORD HEAR THEM?
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
EZEKIEL 22:8-9
8
You have despised My holy things and profaned
My Sabbaths.
9
In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in
you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst
they commit lewdness. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:3
WHY WERE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
READ:
ROMANS 3:10-18
As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not
10
one;
11
There is none who understands; There is none
who seeks after God.
12
They have all turned aside; They have together
become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no,
not one."
13
"Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues
they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is
under their lips";
14
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
15
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17
And the way of peace they have not known."
18
"There is no fear of God before their eyes." NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 59:4-5
SEPARATED FROM GOD
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's
web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which
is crushed a viper breaks out.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:4-5
SEPARATED FROM GOD
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's
web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which
is crushed a viper breaks out.
WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:4
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
READ:
JOB 4:7-8
7
"Remember now, who ever perished being
innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?
8
Even as I have seen, Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
NKJV
READ:
JOB 15:35
35
They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their
womb prepares deceit." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:4
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
READ:
PSALMS 7:14-16
14
Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he
conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
15
He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into
the ditch which he made.
16
His trouble shall return upon his own head, And
his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:4
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
READ:
ISAIAH 29:20-21
20
For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The
scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity
are cut off —
21
Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a
snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside
the just by empty words. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:4
4
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for
truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They
conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
WHY ARE THEY SEPARATED FROM GOD?
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
READ:
JAMES 1:13-15
13
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted
by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He
Himself tempt anyone.
14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away
by his own desires and enticed.
15
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:5
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's
web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which
is crushed a viper breaks out.
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
WHY COMPARE THEM TO VIPERS & SPIDERS?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
PROVERBS 11:18
18
The wicked man does deceptive work, But he who
sows righteousness will have a sure reward. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:5
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's
web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which
is crushed a viper breaks out.
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
WHY COMPARE THEM TO VIPERS & SPIDERS?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
JOB 8:11-14
11
"Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can
the reeds flourish without water?
12
While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers
before any other plant.
13
So are the paths of all who forget God; And the
hope of the hypocrite shall perish,
14
Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose
trust is a spider's web.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:5
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's
web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which
is crushed a viper breaks out.
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
WHAT DID JOHN SAY TO THE PHARISEES?
READ:
MATTHEW 3:7-10
7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and
Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,
"Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath
to come?
8
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,
9
and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have
Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able
to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
READ:
ISAIAH 59:6-8
SEPARATED FROM GOD
6
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they
cover themselves with their works; Their works are
works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their
hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8
The way of peace they have not known, And there
is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves
crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know
peace.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6-8
SEPARATED FROM GOD
6
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they
cover themselves with their works; Their works are
works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their
hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8
The way of peace they have not known, And there
is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves
crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know
peace.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
6
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they
cover themselves with their works; Their works are
works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their
hands.
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
PSALMS 55:9-11
9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I
have seen violence and strife in the city.
10
Day and night they go around it on its walls;
Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.
11
Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit
do not depart from its streets.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
6
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they
cover themselves with their works; Their works are
works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their
hands.
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
PROVERBS 4:14-17
14
Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not
walk in the way of evil.
15
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and
pass on.
16
For they do not sleep unless they have done evil;
And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone
fall.
17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink
the wine of violence.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
6
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they
cover themselves with their works; Their works are
works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their
hands.
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
READ:
ROMANS 13:12-13
12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore
let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on
the armor of light.
13
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry
and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife
and envy. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
READ:
1 TIMOTHY 6:3-5
3
If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent
to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,
4
he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with
disputes and arguments over words, from which come
envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
5
useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and
destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a
means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
READ:
2 TIMOTHY 2:16-19
16
But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will
increase to more ungodliness.
17
And their message will spread like cancer.
Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
18
who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that
the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the
faith of some.
19
Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands,
having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His,"
and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart
from iniquity."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:6
WHAT ARE THE WORKS OF THE WICKED?
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
READ:
2 TIMOTHY 2:22-23
22
Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness,
faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a
pure heart.
23
But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing
that they generate strife.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:16
16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent
blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to
another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in
doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
ISAIAH 1:15
15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My
eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 1:21
21
How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was
full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now
murderers. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT DOES THE LORD HATE?
READ:
PROVERBS 6:16-19
16
These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are
an abomination to Him:
17
A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed
innocent blood,
18
A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are
swift in running to evil,
19
A false witness who speaks lies, And one who
sows discord among brethren.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
READ:
PROVERBS 24:1-2
1
Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be
with them;
2
For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk
of troublemaking.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 2:11
11
My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My
bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction
of the daughter of my people, Because the children and
the infants Faint in the streets of the city.
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 3:47-48
47
Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation
and destruction.
48
My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the
destruction of the daughter of my people.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM?
READ:
MICAH 3:9-10
9
Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice
And pervert all equity,
10
Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem
with iniquity: NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:7
7
Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed
innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
WHAT ARE THE WICKED DOING?
WHAT PROCEEDS FROM THEIR HEART?
READ:
MARK 7:20-23
20
And He said, "What comes out of a man, that
defiles a man.
21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed
evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22
thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23
All these evil things come from within and defile a
man."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:8
8
The way of peace they have not known, And there
is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves
crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know
peace.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
READ:
JUDGES 5:6-7
6
"In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days
of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers
walked along the byways.
7
Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, Until I,
Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 125:5
5
As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways,
The LORD shall lead them away With the workers of
iniquity. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:8
8
The way of peace they have not known, And there
is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves
crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know
peace.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
READ:
PROVERBS 2:12-15
12
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man
who speaks perverse things,
13
From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14
Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the
perversity of the wicked;
15
Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in
their paths; NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:8
8
The way of peace they have not known, And there
is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves
crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know
peace.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
READ:
PROVERBS 28:18
18
Whoever walks blamelessly will be saved, But he
who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall. NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 57:20-21
20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it
cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21
"There is no peace,“ Says my God, "for the
wicked."
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 59:9-11
SIN CONFESSED
9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does
righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is
darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:9-11
SIN CONFESSED
9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does
righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is
darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHAT WERE THEY LOOKING FOR?
READ:
JEREMAIH 8:15
15
"We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a
time of health, and there was trouble!
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:9
9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does
righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is
darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOB?
WHY?
READ:
JOB 19:8
8
He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;
And He has set darkness in my paths.
NKJV
WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
ISAIAH 5:30
30
In that day they will roar against them Like the
roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold,
darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the
clouds.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:9
9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does
righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is
darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 8:19-20
19
And when they say to you, "Seek those who are
mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should
not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead
on behalf of the living?
20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not
speak according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:9
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
READ:
PSALMS 107:14
14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow
of death, And broke their chains in pieces.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 46:13
13
I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far
off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place
salvation in Zion, For Israel My glory.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE HOLY SPIRIT SAY ABOUT JESUS?
READ:
LUKE 1:79
79
To give light to those who sit in darkness and the
shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of
peace."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:10
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY DO THEY GROPE & STUMBLE?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 28:27-29
28
The LORD will strike you with madness and
blindness and confusion of heart.
29
And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man
gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways;
you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually,
and no one shall save you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:10
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY DO THEY GROPE & STUMBLE?
READ:
ISAIAH 6:9-10
9
And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on
hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do
not perceive.'
10
"Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears
heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:10
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY DO THEY GROPE & STUMBLE?
READ:
ISAIAH 8:15
15
And many among them shall stumble; They shall
fall and be broken, Be snared and taken."
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 56:10
10
His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant;
They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping,
lying down, loving to slumber.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:10
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY DO THEY GROPE & STUMBLE?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 4:14
14
They wandered blind in the streets; They have
defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would
touch their garments.
NKJV
READ:
ZEPHANIAH 1:17
17
"I will bring distress upon men, And they shall walk
like blind men, Because they have sinned against the
LORD; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And
their flesh like refuse."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:10
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope
as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at
twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY DO THEY GROPE & STUMBLE?
READ:
JOHN 11:9-10
9
Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the
day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble,
because he sees the light of this world.
10
But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because
the light is not in him."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY ARE THEY GROWLING & MOANING?
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:16
16
Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY ARE THEY GROWLING & MOANING?
READ:
PSALMS 59:15
15
They wander up and down for food, And howl if
they are not satisfied.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 74:19
19
Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the
wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
WHY ARE THEY GROWLING & MOANING?
READ:
ISAIAH 38:14
14
Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I
mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward.
O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 48:28
28
You who dwell in Moab, Leave the cities and dwell
in the rock, And be like the dove which makes her nest
In the sides of the cave's mouth.
NKJV
READ:
NAHUM 2:7
7
It is decreed: She shall be led away captive, She
shall be brought up; And her maidservants shall lead her
as with the voice of doves, Beating their breasts.
WHY DID NOAH SEND OUT A DOVE?
READ:
GENESIS 8:8-12
8
He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the
waters had receded from the face of the ground.
9
But the dove found no resting place for the sole of
her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the
waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out
his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to
himself.
10
And he waited yet another seven days, and again
he sent the dove out from the ark.
11
Then the dove came to him in the evening, and
behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth;
and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the
earth.
13
So he waited yet another seven days and sent out
the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR?
READ:
PSALMS 46:4
4
There is a river whose streams shall make glad the
city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most
High.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 46:7
7
The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is
our refuge. NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 51:15
15
But I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea
whose waves roared — The LORD of hosts is His name.
READ:
ISAIAH 59:12-13
SIN CONFESSED
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions
are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them:
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.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:12-13
SIN CONFESSED
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions
are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them:
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.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:12-13
READ:
GENESIS 4:6-7
6
So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry?
And why has your countenance fallen?
7
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you
do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for
you, but you should rule over it."
NKJV
READ:
EZRA 9:6-7
6
And I said: "O my God, I am too ashamed and
humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our
iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt
has grown up to the heavens.
7
Since the days of our fathers to this day we have
been very guilty, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and
our priests have been delivered into the hand of the
kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder,
and to humiliation, as it is this day.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 51:3-4
READ:
ISAIAH 59:14-15
SIN CONFESSED
14
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands
afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot
enter.
15
So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes
himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased
Him That there was no justice.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:14-15
SIN CONFESSED
14
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands
afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot
enter.
15
So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes
himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased
Him That there was no justice.
READ:
ISAIAH 59:16-18
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
16
He saw that there was no man, And wondered that
there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought
salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it
sustained Him.
17
For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And
a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with
zeal as a cloak.
18
According to their deeds, accordingly He will
repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His
enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:16-18
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
16
He saw that there was no man, And wondered that
there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought
salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it
sustained Him.
17
For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And
a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with
zeal as a cloak.
18
According to their deeds, accordingly He will
repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His
enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay.
READ:
ISAIAH 59:19-20
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
19
So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the
west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the
enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will
lift up a standard against him.
20
"The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those
who turn from transgression in Jacob,“ Says the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:19-20
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
19
So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the
west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the
enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will
lift up a standard against him.
20
"The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those
who turn from transgression in Jacob,“ Says the LORD.
READ:
ISAIAH 59:21
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
21
"As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant
with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words
which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from
your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants,
nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants,"
says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
ISAIAH 59:21
THE REDEEMER OF ZION
21
"As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant
with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words
which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from
your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants,
nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants,"
says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."
NKJV