Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. New Living Translation Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your lips are full of lies, and your mouth spews corruption. English Standard Version For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. Berean Standard Bible For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. King James Bible For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. New King James Version For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity. New American Standard Bible For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with wrongdoing; Your lips have spoken deceit, Your tongue mutters wickedness. NASB 1995 For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness. NASB 1977 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness. Legacy Standard Bible For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken a lie; Your tongue mutters unrighteousness. Amplified Bible For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing]; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue mutters wickedness. Christian Standard Bible For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers, with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice. Holman Christian Standard Bible For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers, with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice. American Standard Version For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. Contemporary English Version Your talk is filled with lies and plans for violence; every finger on your hands is covered with blood. English Revised Version For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers are stained with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things. Good News Translation You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder. International Standard Version For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness. Majority Standard Bible For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. NET Bible For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words. New Heart English Bible For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. Webster's Bible Translation For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness. World English Bible For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor your hands have been defiled with blood, "" And your fingers with iniquity, "" Your lips have spoken falsehood, "" Your tongue mutters perverseness. Young's Literal Translation For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. Smith's Literal Translation For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. Catholic Public Domain Version For your hands have been polluted by blood, and your fingers by iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue utters iniquity. New American Bible For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with crime; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue utters deceit. New Revised Standard Version For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because your hands are polluted in blood and your fingers in evil. Your lips speak falsehood and your tongue devises evil OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue muttereth wickedness. Brenton Septuagint Translation For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Sin Separates Us from God…2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. 3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. 4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.… Cross References Romans 3:13-14 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” / “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” James 3:6-10 The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. / All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, / but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. ... Matthew 12:34-37 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. / The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure. / But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. ... Psalm 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue. Jeremiah 9:3-8 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. / Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. ... Micah 7:2-3 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net. / Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. Hosea 4:1-2 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. Romans 3:15-18 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; / ruin and misery lie in their wake, / and the way of peace they have not known.” ... Ephesians 4:29-31 Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen. / And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. / Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. Colossians 3:8 But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: / haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, / a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, ... Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing. Psalm 58:3-4 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. / Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, Jeremiah 6:7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. Treasury of Scripture For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. your hands Isaiah 1:15,21 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… Jeremiah 2:30,34 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion… Jeremiah 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. your lips Jeremiah 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Jeremiah 9:3-6 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… 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. Jump to Previous Blood Deceit Defiled Falsehood Fingers Gives Guilt Hands Iniquity Lips Mutter Muttered Perverseness Polluted Sin Stained Tongue Unclean Unrighteousness Uttered Wicked WickednessJump to Next Blood Deceit Defiled Falsehood Fingers Gives Guilt Hands Iniquity Lips Mutter Muttered Perverseness Polluted Sin Stained Tongue Unclean Unrighteousness Uttered Wicked WickednessIsaiah 59 1. Calamities are not due to lack of saving power in God, but to their own sins16. Salvation is only of God 20. The covenant of the Redeemer For your hands are stained with blood The phrase "your hands are stained with blood" uses the imagery of hands to symbolize actions and deeds. In Hebrew, the word for "hands" (יָדַיִם, yadayim) often represents one's power and ability to act. The "stained with blood" indicates guilt and violence, suggesting that the people have committed acts of murder or severe injustice. Historically, this reflects the period of moral and social decay in Israel, where violence and oppression were rampant. Theologically, it underscores the seriousness of sin and its consequences, emphasizing that God sees and judges the actions of His people. and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies and your tongue mutters injustice (1) sacrifices of children to Moloch; (2) persecution of prophets; and (3) judicial murders, either actual (like that of Naboth, in Israel) or virtual, i.e. such perversion of justice as produced general poverty and misery, and tended to shorten men's lives (see the comment on Isaiah 1:15). Your lips have spoken lies (comp. Isaiah 32:7). The wicked oppressors "devised wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words." Hebrew Forכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction your hands כַפֵּיכֶם֙ (ḵap·pê·ḵem) Noun - fdc | second person masculine plural Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan are stained נְגֹאֲל֣וּ (nə·ḡō·’ă·lū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1351: To soil, desecrate with blood, בַדָּ֔ם (ḇad·dām) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed and your fingers וְאֶצְבְּעוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם (wə·’eṣ·bə·‘ō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 676: Something to sieze with, a finger, a toe with iniquity; בֶּֽעָוֺ֑ן (be·‘ā·wōn) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity your lips שִׂפְתֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (śip̄·ṯō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin have spoken דִּבְּרוּ־ (dib·bə·rū-) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue lies, שֶׁ֔קֶר (še·qer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood and your tongue לְשׁוֹנְכֶ֖ם (lə·šō·wn·ḵem) Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 3956: The tongue mutters תֶהְגֶּֽה׃ (ṯeh·geh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1897: To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse injustice. עַוְלָ֥ה (‘aw·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness Links Isaiah 59:3 NIVIsaiah 59:3 NLT Isaiah 59:3 ESV Isaiah 59:3 NASB Isaiah 59:3 KJV Isaiah 59:3 BibleApps.com Isaiah 59:3 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 59:3 Chinese Bible Isaiah 59:3 French Bible Isaiah 59:3 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood (Isa Isi Is) |
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