Isaia 59:12

12 Poiché le nostre trasgressioni si son moltiplicate dinanzi a te, e i nostri peccati testimoniano contro di noi; sì, le nostre trasgressioni ci sono presenti, e le nostre iniquità, le conosciamo.

Isaia 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.

Isaia 59:12 In-Context

10 Andiam tastando la parete come i ciechi, andiamo a tastoni come chi non ha occhi; inciampiamo in pien mezzogiorno come nel crepuscolo, in mezzo all’abbondanza sembriamo de’ morti.

11 Tutti quanti mugghiamo come orsi, andiam gemendo come colombe; aspettiamo la sentenza liberatrice, ed essa non viene; la salvezza, ed ella s’allontana da noi.

12 Poiché le nostre trasgressioni si son moltiplicate dinanzi a te, e i nostri peccati testimoniano contro di noi; sì, le nostre trasgressioni ci sono presenti, e le nostre iniquità, le conosciamo.

13 Siamo stati ribelli all’Eterno e l’abbiam rinnegato, ci siamo ritratti dal seguire il nostro Dio, abbiam parlato d’oppressione e di rivolta, abbiam concepito e meditato in cuore parole di menzogna…

14 E la sentenza liberatrice s’è ritirata, e la salvezza s’è tenuta lontana; poiché la verità soccombe sulla piazza pubblica, e la rettitudine non può avervi accesso;