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Isa_59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Ver. 3. For your hands are defiled with blood.] The prophet well knew that these perverse Jews would stand upon their justification, and put God to his proofs, as their posterity also did, {Jer_2:35} catalogum ergo bene longum texit; therefore he here brings in a long bead roll of their sins, wherein their hands, lips, heart, feet, &c., were found guilty of high offence. See Isa_1:15.
Your lips have spoken lies.] Those very "lips" of yours that have uttered prayers, have muttered lies. See Jam_3:10.
And your tongue hath muttered perverseness.] How this was done, none hath better set forth than the prophet Jeremiah {Jer_9:3-8}