In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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Gill's Exposition
In transgressing and lying against the Lord,.... The word of the Lord, as the Targum; they transgress the doctrine of Christ, as well as the law of God, and deny him the only Lord God, even our Lord…
Barnes' Notes
In transgressing - That is, we have been guilty of this as a continuous act. And lying against the Lord - We have proved false to Yahweh. Though we have been professedly his people, yet we have been…
The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon…
Cambridge Bible
The sins referred to in Isa 59:59 are enumerated in a series of infinitives (cf. Isa 59:59), which should be construed as in apposition to the terms "sin," "iniquities," &c. employed in the general…
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