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Isaiah 59:4

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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.	None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.	They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

None calleth^H7121 for justice^H6664, nor any pleadeth^H8199 for truth^H530: they trust^H982 in vanity^H8414, and speak^H1696 lies^H7723; they conceive^H2029 mischief^H5999, and bring forth^H3205 iniquity^H205.

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Original Hebrew

אֵין־קֹרֵא בְצֶדֶק וְאֵין נִשְׁפָּט בֶּאֱמוּנָה בָּטֹוחַ עַל־תֹּהוּ וְדַבֶּר־שָׁוְא הָרֹו עָמָל וְהֹולֵיד אָוֶן׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֵין	'ein-	H369	HTn	there not
קֹרֵ֣א	ko.Re'	H7121	HVqrmsa	(is one who) calls
בְ/צֶ֔דֶק	ve./Tze.dek	H6664	HR/Ncmsa	in/ righteousness
וְ/אֵ֥ין	ve./'Ein	H369	HC/Tn	and/ there not
נִשְׁפָּ֖ט	nish.Pat	H8199	HVNrmsa	(is one who) enters into judgment
בֶּ/אֱמוּנָ֑ה	be./'e.mu.Nah	H530	HR/Ncfsa	in/ truth
בָּט֤וֹחַ	ba.To.ach	H982	HVqa	(they are) trusting
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	on
תֹּ֨הוּ֙	to.hu	H8414	HNcmsa	emptiness
וְ/דַבֶּר	ve./da.ber-	H1696	HC/Vpa	and/ they speak
שָׁ֔וְא	Shav'	H7723	HNcmsa	worthlessness
הָר֥וֹ	ha.Ro	H2029	HVqa	they conceive
עָמָ֖ל	'a.Mal	H5999	HNcbsa	mischief
וְ/הוֹלֵ֥יד	ve./ho.Leid	H3205	HC/Vha	and/ they bring forth
אָֽוֶן	'A.ven	H205	HNcmsa	wickedness

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H205 — אָוֶן (ʼâven, aw-ven'): from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol; affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare אַיִן.
• H530 — אֱמוּנָה (ʼĕmûwnâh, em-oo-naw'): or (shortened) אֱמֻנָה; feminine of אֵמוּן; literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity; faith(-ful, -ly, -ness, (man)), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.
• H982 — בָּטַח (bâṭach, baw-takh'): a primitive root; properly, to hide for refuge (but not so precipitately as חָסָה); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure; be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
• H1696 — דָבַר (dâbar, daw-bar'): a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue; answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.
• H2029 — הָרָה (hârâh, haw-raw'): a primitive root; to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively); been, be with child, conceive, progenitor.
• H3205 — יָלַד (yâlad, yaw-lad'): a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage; bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
• H5999 — עָמָל (ʻâmâl, aw-mawl'): from עָמַל; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind; grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
• H6664 — צֶדֶק (tsedeq, tseh'-dek): from צָדַק; the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity; [idiom] even, ([idiom] that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).
• H7121 — קָרָא (qârâʼ, kaw-raw'): a primitive root (rather identical with קָרָא through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications); bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
• H7723 — שָׁוְא (shâvᵉʼ, shawv): or שַׁו; from the same as שׁוֹא in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain); false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
• H8199 — שָׁפַט (shâphaṭ, shaw-fat'): a primitive root; to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively); [phrase] avenge, [idiom] that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), [idiom] needs, plead, reason, rule.
• H8414 — תֹּהוּ (tôhûw, to'-hoo): from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H369 — אַיִן (ʼayin, ah'-yin): as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle; else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare אַיִן.
• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• and speak — Psalms 62:4, Isaiah 59:3
• calleth — Isaiah 59:16, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:4-5, Ezekiel 22:29-31, Micah 7:2-5
• they conceive — Job 15:35, Psalms 7:13, Proverbs 4:16, Isaiah 59:13, Micah 2:1, James 1:15
• trust — Job 15:31, Psalms 62:10, Isaiah 30:12, Jeremiah 7:4, Jeremiah 7:8

Reciprocal references (26): Exodus 18:21, Nehemiah 6:8, Psalms 4:2, Psalms 7:14, Psalms 10:7, Psalms 12:1, Psalms 50:19, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 58:2, Proverbs 24:2, Proverbs 30:8, Isaiah 32:7, Isaiah 33:11, Isaiah 47:10, Isaiah 57:11, Isaiah 58:9, Isaiah 59:14, Jeremiah 48:7, Ezekiel 11:2, Hosea 11:12, Matthew 12:10, Matthew 12:34, Acts 5:4, Acts 24:9, Ephesians 4:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:6

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: TRUTH-FALSEHOOD
• Torrey’s: CHARACTER OF THE WICKED
• Nave’s: CHARACTER, FALSEHOOD, MALICE, SIN, TRUTH, WICKED (PEOPLE)

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