Isaias 59:4

Filipino Cebuano Bible

4 Walay naghangyo sa pagkamatarung, ug walay nagapangaliyupo sa kamatuoran: sila nagsalig kakawangan ug nagsulti ug mga bakak; sila nanamkon sa kadautan, ug nanganak sa kasal-anan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

calleth: Isaiah 59:16, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, Ezekiel 22:29-31, Micah 7:2-5

trust: Isaiah 30:12, Job 15:31, Psalms 62:10, Jeremiah 7:4, Jeremiah 7:8

and speak: Isaiah 59:3, Psalms 62:4

they conceive: Isaiah 59:13, Job 15:35, Psalms 7:13, Proverbs 4:16, Micah 2:1, James 1:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - men Nehemiah 6:8 - thou feignest Psalms 4:2 - love Psalms 7:14 - General Psalms 10:7 - and deceit Psalms 12:1 - faithful Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 52:1 - mischief Psalms 58:2 - in heart Proverbs 24:2 - General Proverbs 30:8 - Remove Isaiah 32:7 - lying Isaiah 33:11 - conceive Isaiah 47:10 - thou hast trusted Isaiah 57:11 - that thou Isaiah 58:9 - speaking Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 48:7 - because Ezekiel 11:2 - General Hosea 11:12 - compasseth Matthew 12:10 - that Matthew 12:34 - how Acts 5:4 - why Acts 24:9 - General Ephesians 4:25 - putting 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go

Gill's Notes on the Bible

None calleth for justice,.... Or, "righteousness"; not for civil justice in courts of judicature, as if there were no advocates for it there; or that put those in mind of it, to whom the administration of it belongs; or that see to put the laws against sin in execution, and to relieve those that are oppressed; though of this there may be just cause of complaint in some places: but there are none or few that call for evangelical righteousness, either that preach it, proclaim and publish it to others; even the righteousness of Christ, the grand doctrine of the Gospel, which is therein revealed from faith to faith; so the Syriac version, "there is none that preacheth righteously"; or "in", or "of righteousness" t; and the Septuagint version, "no one speaks righteous things"; the words and doctrines of righteousness and truth: or, "no one calls for righteousness"; desires to hear this doctrine, and have it preached to him; hungers and thirsts after it; but chooses the doctrine of justification by works. The Targum refers it to prayer, paraphrasing it thus,

"there is none that prays in truth;''

in sincerity and uprightness, in faith and with fervour; but in a cold, formal, and hypocritical way:

nor any pleadeth for truth: for the truth of the Gospel, particularly for the principal one, the justification of a sinner by the righteousness of Christ alone; few or none contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; they are not valiant for the truth, nor stand fast in it, but drop or conceal it, or deny it: or, "none is judged by", or "according to truth" u; by the Scriptures of truth, but by carnal reason; or by forms and rules of man's devising, and so are condemned; as Gospel ministers and professors of it are:

they trust in vanity; in nothing, as the Vulgate Latin; that is worth nothing; in their own strength, wisdom, riches, righteousness, especially the latter:

and speak lies; or "vanity"; vain things, false doctrines, as before:

they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity; they "conceive" and contrive "mischief" in their minds against those that differ in doctrine and practice from them: "and bring forth iniquity": do that which is criminal and sinful, by words and actions, by calumnies and reproaches, by violence and persecution. The Targum is,

"they hasten and bring out of their hearts words of violence.''

t בצדק "in justitia", Montanus, Tigurine version; "sive de justitia". u אין נשפט באמונה "nemo judicatur scundum veritatem", Munster; "non judicatur in veritate", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

None calleth for justice - Or rather, there is no one who brings a suit with justice; no one who goes into court for the purpose of obtaining justice. There is a love of litigation; a desire to take all the advantage which the law can give; a desire to appeal to the law, not for the sake of having strict justice done, but for the sake of doing injury to others, and to take some undue advantage.

Nor any pleadeth for truth - Or, no one pleadeth with truth. He does not state the cause as it is. He makes use of cunning and falsehood to gain his cause.

They trust in vanity - They confide in quirks and evasions rather than in the justice of their cause.

They conceive mischief - They form plans of evil, and they execute them when they are fully ripe. Compare Job 15:35, where the same phrase occurs. The sense is, that they form plans to injure others, and that they expect to execute them by fraud and deceit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 59:4. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. — There is a curious propriety in this mode of expression; a thought or purpose is compared to conception; a word or act, which is the consequence of it, to the birth of a child. From the third to the fifteenth verse inclusive may be considered a true statement of the then moral state of the Jewish people; and that they were, in the most proper sense of the word, guilty of the iniquities with which they are charged.