Isaías 59:12

12 Pues nuestros pecados se han acumulado ante Dios
y testifican en contra de nosotros.
Así es, sabemos muy bien lo pecadores que somos.

Isaías 59:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 59:12

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee
Not only an increase of immorality among the people in common, but among professors of religion; and as their transgressions are committed against the Lord, so they are in his sight taken notice of and observed by him, are loathsome and abominable to him, and call aloud for his judgments on them: and our sins testify against us;
God is a witness against us, in whose sight our sins are done; and our consciences are witnesses against us, which are as a thousand witnesses; and there is no denying facts; our sins stare us in the face, and we must confess our guilt: or, "our sins answer against us" ^F3; as witnesses called and examined answer to the questions put, so our sins, being brought as it were into open court, answer and bear testimony against us; or it must be owned, our punishment for our sins answers to them; it is the echo of our sins, what they call for, and righteously comes upon us: for our transgressions are with us;
or, "on us" ^F4; in our minds, on our consciences, loading us with guilt; continually accusing and condemning us; are manifest to us, as the Targum; too manifest to be denied: and as for our iniquities, we know them;
the nature and number of them, and the aggravating circumstances that attend them; and cannot but own and acknowledge them, confess, lament, and bewail them; an enumeration of which follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (wnb htne wnytajx) "peccata nostra respondit contra nos", Montanus; "id ipsum respondit contra nos", Cocceius; "even everyone of them", so Junius & Tremellius; "peccatorum nostrorum quodque", sic
F4 (wnta) "super nos", Munster.

Isaías 59:12 In-Context

10 Andamos a tientas, como los ciegos junto a una pared,
palpando para encontrar el camino, como la gente que no tiene ojos.
Hasta en lo más radiante del mediodía,
tropezamos como si estuviera oscuro.
Entre los vivos,
somos como los muertos.

11 Gruñimos como osos hambrientos;
gemimos como el arrullo lastimero de las palomas.
Buscamos la justicia, pero nunca llega;
buscamos el rescate, pero está muy lejos de nosotros.

12 Pues nuestros pecados se han acumulado ante Dios
y testifican en contra de nosotros.
Así es, sabemos muy bien lo pecadores que somos.

13 Sabemos que nos hemos rebelado contra el Señor
y también lo hemos negado;
le hemos dado la espalda a nuestro Dios.
Sabemos que hemos sido injustos y opresores,
preparando con cuidado nuestras mentiras engañosas.

14 Nuestros tribunales se oponen a los justos,
y no se encuentra justicia por ninguna parte.
La verdad tropieza por las calles
y la honradez ha sido declarada ilegal.