Isaiah 59:1-8
Sin separates and destroys justice.
1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
8 They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Sin separates and destroys justice.
To expose sin as the true barrier between the people and the LORD, explaining why justice and deliverance are delayed.
In a time of moral decay, the people experience the consequences of their sin, leading to separation from God and societal breakdown.
Sin Separates, Justice Fails, and the LORD Himself Comes as Redeemer
Human sin separates the people from God and destroys justice, but the LORD himself comes as warrior-Redeemer to bring salvation, judge evil, and establish his covenant word and Spirit among the repentant.