Isaiah 59:13
New International Version
rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

New Living Translation
We know we have rebelled and have denied the LORD. We have turned our backs on our God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.

English Standard Version
transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Berean Standard Bible
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

King James Bible
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

New King James Version
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

New American Standard Bible
Offending and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

NASB 1995
Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

NASB 1977
Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

Legacy Standard Bible
Transgressing and denying Yahweh, And turning back from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

Amplified Bible
Rebelling against and denying the LORD, Turning away from [following] our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and muttering from the heart lying words.

Christian Standard Bible
transgression and deception against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
transgression and deception against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

American Standard Version
transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
We have done evil and we have lied to LORD JEHOVAH, and we have turned away from after our God. We have spoken oppression and we rebelled. We were conceiving and meditating lying words from our heart

Brenton Septuagint Translation
We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

Contemporary English Version
We have rebelled and refused to follow you. Our hearts were deceitful, and so we lied; we planned to abuse others and turn our backs on you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression : we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.

English Revised Version
in transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We have rebelled and denied the LORD. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Good News Translation
We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.

International Standard Version
they've rebelled in treachery against the LORD, and are turning away from following our God; and they've spoken oppression and revolt, and are conceiving lying words from the heart.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from following our God, Speaking oppression and perverseness, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Literal Standard Version
Transgressing, and lying against YHWH, | And removing from after our God, | Speaking oppression and apostasy, | Conceiving and uttering from the heart | Words of falsehood.

Majority Standard Bible
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

New American Bible
Transgressing, and denying the LORD, turning back from following our God, Planning fraud and treachery, uttering lying words conceived in the heart.

NET Bible
We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

New Revised Standard Version
transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

New Heart English Bible
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Webster's Bible Translation
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

World English Bible
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Young's Literal Translation
Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

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Context
Sin Separates Us from God
12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities: 13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. 14So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.…

Cross References
Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

Mark 7:21
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, "You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God."

Job 31:28
this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Proverbs 30:9
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, 'Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.


Treasury of Scripture

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

lying

Isaiah 32:6
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Isaiah 48:8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 57:11
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

departing

Isaiah 31:6
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

Psalm 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Jeremiah 2:13,19-21
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water…

speaking

Jeremiah 5:23
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Jeremiah 9:2-5
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men…

Matthew 12:34-36
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh…

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16. Salvation is only of God
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(13) In transgressing . . .--The clauses point respectively (1) to false and hypocritical worship; (2) to open apostacy; (3) to sins against man, and these subdivided into (a) sins against truth, and (b) sins against justice.

Verse 13. - An enumeration of special sins. First, sins of the heart. Transgressing and lying against the Lord; or rather, treason and unfaithfulness to Jehovah (Cheyne); followed by departing away from God, or the secret act of apostasy. Next, sins of the tongue: Speaking oppression and revolt; or, oppression and wrong - the "wrong," probably, of false accusation (comp. Deuteronomy 19:16); and, lastly, conceiving and uttering · . . words of falsehood generally.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
rebelling
פָּשֹׁ֤עַ (pā·šō·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 6586: To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel

and denying
וְכַחֵשׁ֙ (wə·ḵa·ḥêš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 3584: To disappoint, deceive, fail, grow lean

the LORD,
בַּֽיהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

turning away
וְנָס֖וֹג (wə·nā·sō·wḡ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 5253: Departing away, remove, take hold, turn away

from
מֵאַחַ֣ר (mê·’a·ḥar)
Preposition-m
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

our God,
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

speaking
דַּבֶּר־ (dab·ber-)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

oppression
עֹ֣שֶׁק (‘ō·šeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6233: Injury, fraud, distress, unjust gain

and revolt,
וְסָרָ֔ה (wə·sā·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5627: Turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal

conceiving
הֹר֧וֹ (hō·rōw)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 2029: To conceive, become pregnant

and uttering
וְהֹג֛וֹ (wə·hō·ḡōw)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 1897: To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse

lies
שָֽׁקֶר׃ (šā·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood

from the heart.
מִלֵּ֖ב (mil·lêḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre


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