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Isaiah 59

Is. 59:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yea, truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
faileth
`adar (Hebrew #5737)
to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting)
KJV usage: dig, fail, keep (rank), lack.
Pronounce: aw-dar'
Origin: a primitive root
; and he that departeth
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
ηmaketh himself a prey
shalal (Hebrew #7997)
to drop or strip; by implication, to plunder
KJV usage: let fall, make self a prey, X of purpose, (make a, (take)) spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
: and the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
it, and it θdispleased
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
yara` (Hebrew #3415)
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
KJV usage: be grevious (only Isa. 15:4; the rest belong to 7489).
Pronounce: yaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
him that there was no judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
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Is. 48:1• 1Oid esto, casa de Jacob, que os llamáis del nombre de Israel, los que salieron de las aguas de Judá, los que juran en el nombre de Jehová, y hacen memoria del Dios de Israel, mas no en verdad ni en justicia: (Is. 48:1)
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Sal. 5:9• 9Porque no hay en su boca rectitud: Sus entrañas son pravedades; Sepulcro abierto su garganta: Con su lengua lisonjearán. (Sal. 5:9)
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Sal. 12:1‑2• 1Al Músico principal: sobre Seminith: Salmo de David. Salva, oh Jehová, porque se acabaron los misericordiosos: Porque se han acabado los fieles de entre los hijos de los hombres.
2Mentira habla cada uno con su prójimo; Con labios lisonjeros, con corazón doble hablan.
(Sal. 12:1‑2)
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Jer. 5:1‑2• 1Discurrid por las plazas de Jerusalem, y mirad ahora, y sabed, y buscad en sus plazas si halláis hombre, si hay alguno que haga juicio, que busque verdad; y yo la perdonaré.
2Y si dijeren: Vive Jehová; por tanto jurarán mentira.
(Jer. 5:1‑2)
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Jer. 7:28• 28Les dirás por tanto: Esta es la gente que no escuchó la voz de Jehová su Dios, ni tomó corrección; perdióse la fe, y de la boca de ellos fué cortada. (Jer. 7:28)
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Os. 4:1‑2• 1Oid palabra de Jehová, hijos de Israel, porque Jehová pleitea con los moradores de la tierra; porque no hay verdad, ni misericordia, ni conocimiento de Dios en la tierra.
2Perjurar, y mentir, y matar, y hurtar y adulterar prevalecieron, y sangres se tocaron con sangres.
(Os. 4:1‑2)
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Mi. 7:2• 2Faltó el misericordioso de la tierra, y ninguno hay recto entre los hombres: todos acechan á la sangre; cada cual arma red á su hermano. (Mi. 7:2)
he that.
maketh himself a prey.
or, is accounted mad.
displeased him.
Heb. was evil in his eyes.
 And one further feature of a very grievous sort was to be seen. There were some, however few they might be, who walked in the fear of God and hence departed from all these evils and walked in separation from them. Such came under judgment from the mass who went on with the evils; for “he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey”. It was a very unpopular thing to do, since it cast a discredit and rebuke on the mass who indulged in the sins. (Isaiah 59 by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment.