Isaiah 9:15

9:15 The leaders and the highly respected people ¹  are the head,

the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Isaiah 59:3

59:3 For your hands are stained with blood

and your fingers with sin;

your lips speak lies,

your tongue utters malicious words.

Isaiah 32:7

32:7 A deceiver’s methods are evil; ² 

he dreams up evil plans ³ 

to ruin the poor with lies,

even when the needy are in the right. ⁴ 

Isaiah 44:20

44:20 He feeds on ashes; ⁵ 

his deceived mind misleads him.

He cannot rescue himself,

nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ ⁶ 

Isaiah 57:4

57:4 At whom are you laughing?

At whom are you opening your mouth

and sticking out your tongue?

You are the children of rebels,

the offspring of liars, ⁷ 

Isaiah 59:13

59:13 We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord;

we turned back from following our God.

We stir up ⁸  oppression and rebellion;

we tell lies we concocted in our minds. ⁹ 

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “the elder and the one lifted up with respect to the face.” For another example of the Hebrew idiom, see 2 Kgs 5:1.

[32:7]  ² tn Heb “as for a deceiver, his implements [or “weapons”] are evil.”

[32:7]  ³ tn Or “he plans evil things”; NIV “he makes up evil schemes.”

[32:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “to ruin the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speak what is just.”

[44:20]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “he eats on an ash heap.”

[44:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Is it not a lie in my right hand?”

[57:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of a lie?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “Of course you are!”

[59:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “speaking.” A new sentence was started here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[59:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”