Isaiah 59:3

Isaiah · Old Testament · Chapter 59

“For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.”Isaiah 59:3

What Does Isaiah 59:3 Mean?

Isaiah 59:3 is found in the book of Isaiah, chapter 59, verse 3 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Key themes in this passage include Sin.

Cross-References (20)

These passages are connected to Isaiah 59:3 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

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.”Micah 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.”Romans 3:13“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:”Proverbs 6:17“A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,”Psalms 140:3“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.”Isaiah 1:21“How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”Isaiah 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.”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.”Jeremiah 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.”Matthew 15:11“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”Ephesians 4:25“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”Psalms 50:19“Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.”Psalms 106:39“Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.”Proverbs 2:12“To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;”Isaiah 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?”Isaiah 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?”Isaiah 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;”Jeremiah 7:8“Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.”

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