Isaiah 59:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 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.
Ezekiel 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.
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Topics

Avenger of Blood Commandments Crime Deceit Deception Depravity of Man False Teachers Falsehood

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa. 58:3. Now here he shows, I. That it was not owing to God. They had no reason to lay the fault upon him that they were not saved out of the hands of their enemies; for, 1. He was still as able to help as ever…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. (Is 1:15; Ro 3:13-15). hands ... fingers--Not merely the “hands” perpetrate deeds of grosser enormity (“blood”), but the “fingers” commit more minute acts of “iniquity.” lips ... tongue--The lips “speak” openly “lies,” the tongue “mutters” malicious insinuations (“perverseness”; perverse misrepresentations of others) (Jr 6:28; 9:4).