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Isaías 59

BLIVRE · Chapter 59/66

1Eis que a mão do SENHOR não está encolhida, para que não possa salvar; nem seu ouvido surdo, para não poder ouvir.

2Porém vossas perversidades fazem separação entre vós e vosso Deus; e vossos pecados encobrem o rosto dele de vós, para que não ouça.

3Porque vossas mãos estão contaminadas de sangue, e vossos dedos de maldade; vossos lábios falam falsidade, vossa língua pronuncia perversidade.

4Ninguém há que clame pela justiça, nem ninguém que defenda causa em juízo por meio da verdade; confiam naquilo que é inútil, e falam mentiras; são causadores de opressão, e geram injustiça;

5Chocam ovos de serpente, e tecem teias de aranha; quem comer de seus ovos morrerá, e sairá uma cobra venenosa se forem pisados.

6Suas teias não servem para vestimentas, nem poderão se cobrir com suas obras; suas obras são obras de injustiça, e atos de violência há em suas mãos.

7Seus pés correm para o mal, e se apressam para derramarem sangue inocente; seus pensamentos são pensamentos de injustiça, destruição e ruína há em suas estradas.

8O caminho da paz eles não conhecem, nem há justiça em seus percursos; entortam suas veredas para si mesmos; todo aquele que anda por elas não experimentará paz.

9Por isso o juízo está longe de nós, nem a justiça nos alcança; esperamos luz , [porém] eis que há [somente] trevas; [esperamos] brilho, [porém] andamos às escuras.

10Apalpamos as paredes como cegos, e como se não tivéssemos olhos andamos apalpando; tropeçamos ao meio-dia como se fosse noite; entre os fortes estamos como mortos.

11Todos nós bramamos como ursos, e continuamente gememos como pombas; esperamos pela justiça, e nada [acontece] ; [esperamos] pela salvação, [porem] ela está longe de nós.

12Pois nossas transgressões se multiplicaram diante de ti, e nossos pecados dão testemunho contra nós; pois nossas transgressões estão conosco, e conhecemos nossas perversidades,

13[Tais como] : transgredir e mentir contra o SENHOR, e se desviar de seguir a nosso Deus; falar de opressão e rebelião, conceber e falar palavras de falsidade do coração.

14Por isso que o direito retrocedeu, e a justiça ficou de longe; pois a verdade tropeçou na praça, e a correta decisão não pode entrar.

15E a verdade se perde, e quem se desvia do mal corre o risco de ser saqueado; e o SENHOR o viu, pareceu mal em seus olhos, por não haver justiça.

16E vendo que ninguém havia, maravilhou-se de que não houvesse intercessor algum; por isso seu próprio braço lhe trouxe a salvação, e sua própria justiça o susteve.

17Pois ele se vestu de justiça como uma armadura, e [pôs] o capacete da salvação em sua cabeça; e vestiu-se de roupas de vingança [como] vestimenta, e cobriu-se de selo como uma capa.

18Ele [lhes] retribuirá conforme [suas] obras: furor a seus adversários, pagamento a seus inimigos; aos litorais ele pagará de volta.

19Então temerão o nome do SENHOR desde o ocidente, e sua glória desde o oriente; pois ele vem como uma correnteza impetuosa, empurrada pelo sopro do SENHOR.

20E um Redentor virá a Sião, para aqueles que se arrependerem de [sua] transgressão em Jacó, diz o SENHOR.

21Quanto a mim, este é meu pacto com eles,diz o SENHOR; meu Espírito que está sobre ti, e minhas palavras que pus em tua boca, não se afastarão de tua boca nem da boca de teus descendentes, nem da boca dos descendentes de teus descendentes, diz o SENHOR, desde agora e para sempre.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Isaiah explains that the separation between the people and God is not a lack of divine power, but a consequence of their own sins: lying, violence, and injustice. Seeing that no one interceded, God's own arm brought salvation, and a Redeemer will come to Zion.

Explanation

The chapter begins by clearing up a common doubt: if prayers do not seem to be answered, the problem is not that the "LORD's hand" is shortened or weak, but sin, which "has separated" the people from God, like a wall blocking communication. The extensive list of sins (hands defiled with blood, lips that speak lies, feet that run to evil) describes a society morally diseased to its very root, unable to find its own way back to justice. The striking image of God putting on "the breastplate of righteousness" and "an helmet of salvation" like a warrior, acting alone because "there was no intercessor," anticipates the language Paul would later use in Ephesians 6 about the "armor of God." The practical application today is to honestly examine whether spiritual barriers in our lives are caused by our own choices, rather than automatically assuming that God is distant or unable to help.

Fun facts

  • The image of God putting on "the breastplate of righteousness" and "an helmet of salvation" (v.17) is directly quoted and expanded by Paul in Ephesians 6:14-17, in the famous passage about the "armor of God" still used by Christians today in the context of discipleship.
  • The final promise of a "Redeemer" who would come to Zion, "and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob," is quoted by Paul in Romans 11:26 when discussing the future role of Israel in God's plan of salvation.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Isaías 59:1“The Lord’s hand is not shortened” and “his ear heavy” are images of physical incapacity; the chapter opens by denying that God’s silence is due to any limitation of His, setting up the real explanation that follows.
  2. Isaías 59:2“Have separated” and “hid his face” describe sin as a barrier that interrupts communication — not God pulling away on His own, but the people distancing themselves because of their own actions.
  3. Isaías 59:3Hands defiled with blood, fingers of iniquity, and a perverse tongue list a physical portrait of sin, each body part tied to a different kind of wrongdoing committed.
  4. Isaías 59:4“None calleth for justice” describes a total collapse of the legal system, where lies and vanity replace any sincere defense of truth in the courts.
  5. Isaías 59:5Cockatrice eggs that hatch poison and spider webs that clothe no one compare the people’s actions to things that look productive but are useless or dangerous. It’s all work that serves no good purpose.
  6. Isaías 59:6Comparing the people’s works to spider webs, unable to serve as clothing, shows that all this effort produces nothing useful, only violence disguised as activity.
  7. Isaías 59:7Feet that run to evil and shed innocent blood describe haste in doing wrong, and “wasting and destruction” in the roads suggest that even ordinary paths became scenes of violence.
  8. Isaías 59:8“The way of peace they know not” sums up the chapter so far: the people’s own paths are crooked, incapable of leading anywhere resembling peace or justice.
  9. Isaías 59:9Waiting for light and receiving darkness describes the frustration of someone hoping for relief and finding only more darkness, a direct result of the behavior described in the previous verses.
  10. Isaías 59:10Groping at walls like the blind describes moral confusion as physical blindness: people stumbling at noon, when everything should be clear. Widespread injustice has erased the ability to see the right path.
  11. Isaías 59:11Roaring like bears and moaning like doves combines two very different sounds of suffering, one fierce and one gentle, to describe the collective anguish of waiting for a salvation that doesn’t arrive.
  12. Isaías 59:12“Our transgressions are multiplied” shifts the tone to collective confession, openly acknowledging that the people know their own iniquities, without trying to deny or justify them.
  13. Isaías 59:13The list of sins here, lying, turning away from God, speaking oppression, is more abstract than the list of physical actions at the start of the chapter, showing that the problem also lies at the level of intention and speech.
  14. Isaías 59:14“Judgment is turned away backward” and “truth is fallen in the street” personify abstract concepts as wounded people, unable to move freely in a corrupt society.
  15. Isaías 59:15“He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey” describes a society so inverted that doing right has become dangerous, a scenario that finally draws God’s attention to act.
  16. Isaías 59:16“Wondered that there was no intercessor” describes surprise at the total absence of anyone willing to mediate or defend the right cause, leading God to act alone by His own strength.
  17. Isaías 59:17God dressed in a breastplate and helmet uses the language of a warrior arming for battle. It’s an image that, seeing no one else doing right, He Himself takes up the fight for justice.
  18. Isaías 59:18“According to their deeds” establishes the principle of retribution: God’s response is proportional to what each group did, reaching even the distant islands mentioned in other chapters as a symbol for the nations.
  19. Isaías 59:19Fearing the name of the Lord “from the west” to “the rising of the sun” repeats the same expression of universal reach used in chapter 45, and the image of the enemy as a flood of water held back by a standard describes direct intervention against an overwhelming threat.
  20. Isaías 59:20The coming of “the Redeemer… to Zion” connects this chapter to the restoration theme that dominates the second half of the book, addressed specifically to those within the people who repent.
  21. Isaías 59:21The “covenant” promising that the spirit and the words will never leave the people’s mouth, nor their children’s, guarantees permanent continuity of revelation, from parent to child, with no end in sight.

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