14THEN YOU WILL TAKE DELIGHT ON YAHWEH AND I WILL MAKE RIDE YOU ON [THE] HIGH PLACES OF [THE] LAND AND I WILL FEED YOU [THE] INHERITANCE OF JACOB ANCESTOR YOUR FOR [THE] MOUTH OF YAHWEH IT HAS SPOKEN 14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
1HERE! NOT IT IS [TOO] SHORT [THE] HAND OF YAHWEH FOR SAVING AND NOT IT IS [TOO] HEAVY EAR HIS FOR HEARING Sin Separates Us from God (Psalm 14:1–7; Psalm 53:1–6; Romans 3:9–20) 1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
2FOR EXCEPT INIQUITIES YOUR THEY HAVE BEEN SEPARATING BETWEEN YOU AND BETWEEN GOD YOUR AND SINS YOUR THEY HAVE HIDDEN FACE FROM YOU FROM HEARING 2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
3FOR HANDS YOUR THEY ARE DEFILED WITH <THE> BLOOD AND FINGERS YOUR WITH <THE> INIQUITY LIPS YOUR THEY HAVE SPOKEN FALSEHOOD TONGUE YOUR INJUSTICE IT MUTTERS 3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
4THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] CALLS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] ENTERS INTO JUDGMENT IN TRUTH [THEY ARE] TRUSTING ON EMPTINESS AND THEY SPEAK WORTHLESSNESS THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND THEY BRING FORTH WICKEDNESS 4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5EGGS OF A VIPER THEY HAVE HATCHED AND WEBS OF A SPIDER THEY WEAVE THE [ONE WHO] EATS ANY OF EGGS THEIR HE WILL DIE AND THE PRESSED [EGG] IT IS HATCHED A SNAKE 5They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
6WEBS THEIR NOT THEY WILL BECOME <INTO> CLOTHING AND NOT PEOPLE WILL COVER THEMSELVES WITH PRODUCTS THEIR PRODUCTS THEIR [ARE] PRODUCTS OF WICKEDNESS AND DEED[S] OF VIOLENCE [IS] IN HANDS THEIR 6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
7FEET THEIR TO <THE> EVIL THEY RUN AND THEY MAY HASTEN TO SHED BLOOD INNOCENT THOUGHTS THEIR [ARE] THOUGHTS OF WICKEDNESS DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION [ARE] ON HIGHWAYS THEIR 7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction*NoteCloseLXX misery lie in their wake.
8A WAY OF PEACE NOT THEY KNOW AND THERE NOT [IS] JUSTICE ON TRACKS THEIR PATHS THEIR THEY HAVE MADE CROOKED <FOR> THEMSELVES ANY [ONE WHO] TREADS ON IT NOT HE KNOWS PEACE 8The way of peace they have not known,*NoteCloseCited in Romans 3:15–17 and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
9THERE- -FORE IT IS FAR JUSTICE FROM US AND NOT IT REACHES US RIGHTEOUSNESS WE WAIT EAGERLY FOR THE LIGHT AND THERE! DARKNESS FOR GLEAMS OF LIGHT IN <THE> GLOOM<S> WE WALK 9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10WE GROPE FOR LIKE <THE> BLIND [PEOPLE] A WALL AND LIKE THERE NOT [ARE] EYES WE GROPE WE HAVE STUMBLED AT <THE> NOON<S> LIKE THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE FAT PEOPLE LIKE <THE> DEAD [PEOPLE] 10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
11WE GROWL LIKE <THE> BEARS ALL OF US AND LIKE <THE> DOVES CERTAINLY <TO MOAN> WE MOAN WE WAIT EAGERLY FOR <THE> JUSTICE AND THERE NOT FOR DELIVERANCE IT IS FAR FROM US 11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
12FOR THEY ARE MANY TRANSGRESSIONS OUR BEFORE YOU AND SINS OUR IT HAS TESTIFIED AGAINST US THAT TRANSGRESSIONS OUR [ARE] WITH US AND INIQUITIES OUR WE KNOW THEM 12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
13WE HAVE TRANSGRESSED AND WE HAVE DENIED <IN> YAHWEH AND WE HAVE TURNED BACK FROM AFTER GOD OUR WE HAVE SPOKEN OPPRESSION AND REBELLION WE HAVE CONCEIVED AND WE HAVE UTTERED FROM [THE] HEART WORDS OF FALSEHOOD 13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
14AND IT HAS BEEN DRIVEN BACK BACKWARDS JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM A DISTANCE IT STANDS FOR IT HAS STUMBLED IN THE OPEN PLACE TRUTH AND HONESTY NOT IT IS ABLE TO ENTER 14So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
15AND IT WAS <THE> TRUTH LACKING AND [ONE WHO] TURNED ASIDE FROM EVIL [WAS] PLUNDERED AND HE SAW YAHWEH AND IT WAS DISPLEASING IN VIEW HIS THAT THERE NOT [WAS] JUSTICE 15Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased*NoteCloseHebrew and it was evil in His eyes that there was no justice.
16AND HE SAW THAT THERE NOT [WAS] ANYONE AND HE WAS APPALLED THAT THERE NOT [WAS ONE WHO] INTERPOSED AND IT GAVE VICTORY TO HIM OWN ARM HIS AND OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS HIS IT IT SUSTAINED HIM 16He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation and His own righteousness sustained Him.
17AND HE PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE <THE> BODY ARMOR AND A HELMET OF SALVATION ON HEAD HIS AND HE PUT ON GARMENTS OF VENGEANCE CLOTHING AND HE WRAPPED HIMSELF LIKE <THE> ROBE ZEAL 17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
18AS ON DEEDS AS ON HE WILL REPAY RAGE TO OPPONENTS HIS RECOMPENSE TO ENEMIES HIS TO THE ISLANDS RECOMPENSE HE WILL REPAY The Covenant of the Redeemer 18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.*NoteCloseOr coastlands
19AND THEY MAY FEAR FROM [THE] SETTING PLACE <OBJ.> [THE] NAME OF YAHWEH AND FROM [THE] RISING OF [THE] SUN <OBJ.> GLORY HIS FOR HE WILL COME LIKE <THE> RIVER NARROW [WHICH] [THE] WIND OF YAHWEH IT WILL DRIVE <IN> IT 19So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.*NoteCloseOr When the enemy comes like a raging flood, the Spirit of the LORD will drive him back
20AND HE WILL COME TO ZION A REDEEMER AND TO [THOSE WHO] REPENT OF TRANSGRESSION IN JACOB [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,*NoteCloseLXX to remove godlessness from Jacob; cited in Romans 11:26 ” declares the LORD.
21AND I THIS [IS] COVENANT MY WITH THEM HE SAYS YAHWEH SPIRIT MY WHICH [IS] ON YOU AND WORDS MY WHICH I HAVE PUT IN MOUTH YOUR NOT THEY WILL DEPART FROM MOUTH YOUR AND FROM [THE] MOUTH OF OFFSPRING YOUR AND FROM [THE] MOUTH OF [THE] OFFSPRING OF OFFSPRING YOUR HE SAYS YAHWEH FROM NOW AND UNTIL PERPETUITY 21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,”*NoteCloseCited in Romans 11:27 says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you,*NoteCloseLiterally My Spirit, who is upon you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.