King James Version
Isaiah 59:4 in the King James Version says “None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and ...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 59 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.”
Isaiah 59:4 · KJV
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. have hid: or, have made him hide
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. cockatrice': or, adder's crushed: or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“None calleth”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“for justice”
H6664the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
“nor any pleadeth”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
“they trust”
H982properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as h2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in vanity”
H8414a desolation (of surface), i.e., desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
“and speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“lies”
H7723evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, object
“and bring forth”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“iniquity”
H205strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
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