Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Note d'étude
Study Note
The accusation 'none calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity' belongs to Isaiah 59's diagnosis of the social disorder that separates the community from God (59:2). The verse applies forensic categories — calling for justice (din), pleading truth ('emet) — to describe the collapse of a society whose legal and judicial institutions have become venues for the perpetuation of falsehood. The imagery of 'conceiving mischief and bringing forth iniquity' from Job 15:35 and Psalm 7:14 frames injustice as a gestation-and-birth process — moral disorder is generative, producing further corruption. Paul applies Isaiah 59:7-8 in Romans 3:15-17 as evidence of universal human sinfulness, making this passage part of the New Testament's scriptural anatomy of sin.
Autres traductions
None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Références croisées
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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