For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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Gill's Exposition
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity,.... From a general charge, the prophet proceeds to a particular enumeration of sins they were guilty of; and idolatry not being…
Barnes' Notes
For your hands are defiled with blood - The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; and in order to show the extent and depth of their depravity, he…
Adam Clarke
Your tongue "And your tongue" - An ancient MS., and the Septuagint and Vulgate, add the conjunction.
The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa 58:3.…
Cambridge Bible
your hands are defiled with blood Cf. ch. Isa 1:15.
hath uttered Better muttereth (as R.V.).
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