Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 481

ISAIAH. 5 Cu. 58. Gnzs 54, 55, Boox II. N ot seeking your pleasure or trade. Thus delighting yourself with thc.LORD, You shall ride on the Heights ofthe Earth, —·- So, the I..0RD’s mouth has declared i ODE 5 5. mlm Israel is nai Qelpzh by ®¤h. The L0n1>’s hand is not cut o&` from saving, And His ears are not deaf tea sound, If your vices had not made division Between you, and between your own GOD, And your sins hindered listening to you. For your hands are pollutedtwith blood, And your Hngers are filthy with sin; You speak lies from your lips, And your tongue mutters crime. None pleads for the right; None decides for the truth; They trust upon tricks and false speech, Conceive mischief and bring forth deceit. They hatch vipers’ eggs, And they spin spidersf webs ; Who eats their eggs dies, And who hatches,·-··-produces a snake. Their webs make no cloak, Nor their fabrics make clothing, Their products make nothing, But wrong in their hands. Their feet run to evil, And haste to shed innocent blood; Their genius,-—contrivance of crime, In their haunts are destruction and ruin; They know no path of Peace; No justice is found in their trades; They distort their own roads;

All who travel them never know peace. Therefore justice is distant from us; And Right does notaccost; When we hope for the light, it is dark; When for brightness,-·—·we walkin the gloomy We grope like the blind for a wall; We stumble in light as at dusk, In prosperity fear as at Death I We all groan like the bears; And we mourn like the doves; Hope for justice,-—but had not For safety,~—-but it is far 0H I For our crimes grow beforeyou, Our sins speak, against us, Our crimes are convicting, And the witnesses are our lusts! By revolt and deserting the Loeb, And marching away from our GOD, By distorting, and breeding the wrong, By false reasons sent out from the heart, 48 1 I4

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