The company prided themselves for years for providing totally “private” services while perusing the internet, while not tracking user’s personal data and search history.
It turns out that was a bold-faced lie, as it was recently revealed that the company has been allowing Microsoft’s Bing and LinkedIn services to collect third party tracking cookies, while no one knew this was occurring, according to the Trends Journal.
Zach Edwards, a teach researcher, made this discover when examining the Duck Duck Go “Private browser” product, who found that the browser was blocking third-party trackers from Google and Facebook, but Bing and LinkedIn still had a backdoor open to them.
Sometimes you find something so disturbing during an audit, you’ve gotta check/recheck because you assume that *something* must be broken in the test.
But I’m confident now. The new @DuckDuckGo browsers for iOS/Android don’t block Microsoft data flows, for LinkedIn or Bing.
Edwards wrote on Twitter
Tech Radar wrote, ‘What remains unknown is why the company who is known for its transparency decided to keep this agreement a secret for as long as it could.’
Duck Duck Go’s founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg, similar to the fallout from censoring content that promoted what they deemed “Russian disinformation,” Weinberg again made alibis for these new revelations.
Weinberg told BleepingComputer that his browser offers “above-and-beyond protection” other browsers do not even consider providing, and that Duck Duck Go “never promised” full anonymity when browsing.
We have always been extremely careful to never promise anonymity when browsing, because that frankly isn’t possible given how quickly trackers change how they work to evade protections and the tools we currently offer,” he added.
When most other browsers on the market talk about tracking protection, they are usually referring to 3rd-party cookie protection and fingerprinting protection, and our browsers for iOS, Android, and our new Mac beta, impose these restrictions on third-party tracking scripts, including those from Microsoft. What we’re talking about here is an above-and-beyond protection that most browsers don’t even attempt to do — that is, blocking third-party tracking scripts before they load on 3rd party websites.
Because we’re doing this where we can, users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using other browsers.
Reclaim The Net notes that when news of this broke, users were very upset with the Weinberg’s and the company’s duplicity.
Weinberg also took to Twitter and explained, “Unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more to Microsoft-owned properties. However, we have been continually pushing and expect to be doing more soon.”
Furthermore, he then took to Reddit and wrote,
The issue at hand is, while most of our protections like 3rd-party cookie blocking apply to Microsoft scripts on 3rd-party sites (again, this is off of DuckDuckGo,com, i.e., not related to search), we are currently contractually restricted by Microsoft from completely stopping them from loading (the one above-and-beyond protection explained in the last paragraph) on 3rd party sites. We still restrict them though (e.g., no 3rd party cookies allowed). The original example was Workplace.com loading a LinkedIn.com script. Nevertheless, we have been and are working with Microsoft as we speak to reduce or remove this limited restriction.
‘The behavior seems all the more disingenuous since the discovery comes at a time when web users are more aware than ever of the danger of tracking, data collection, and sharing, and are putting their faith in what appear to be real alternatives,’ Reclaim The Net concluded.
Joe Doran for the Trends Journal gave his personal endorsement of another rising browser: Brave, which boasts that it “blocks all creepy ads from every website by default. And that thing where ads follow you across the web? Brave blocks that, too;” and are “not beholden to any other tech company, and works every single day to fight Big Tech’s terrible privacy abuses. Brave exists to protect the individual.”
And speaking of Brave, the company is reportedly making the move to web3 technology, via integrations with the Solana blockchain, the Trends Journal additionally notes.
Solana claims that they are “the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more.”
This new integration includes a crypto wallet dubbed “Brave Wallet,” that offers a Basic Attention Token (BAT) which are rewarded to users for browsing, along with Dapp functionality.
By partnering with Solana, Brave enables users to explore Web3 with significantly lower transaction fees and faster processing times than the Ethereum network. In the coming months, this partnership will also enable seamless access to a thriving and growing ecosystem of decentralized apps (DApps).
The company said in a press release
The Trends Journal additional notes: ‘Right now, third party wallet apps like Metamask can integrate with browsers like Chrome to offer users easy functionality to crypto wallets and DApps.’
‘However, the Brave Wallet is not a third party add-on, but one developed by the browser and search engine provider itself.’
‘One of the more interesting features of Brave’s announcement is its Basic Attention Token. According to Brave, people who accrue tokens will be able to use BAT on the Solana chain wrapped via Wormhole, and on chains compatible with Ethereum and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).’
‘In the near future, BAT holders will also be able to buy and sell NFTs on Magic Eden, which bills itself as “the largest community-first NFT-based web3 ecosystem,”‘ the Journal concludes.
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Duck Duck No has struck again, though, if you read my report on when they started canceling the “disinfo” pushers (like The WP for example), I noted how the former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey openly said he recommended Duck Duck Go, which in retrospect makes sense why he would: Duck Duck Go was always in the club.
[5] A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. [6] In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. [13] The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.Proverbs 29:5-6, 13
I personally have not used Duck Duck Go as much since March of this year, and I have been using Quant as a search engine, though maybe I should give Brave’s search engine a try. I also have been using Brave for a year now and I do enjoy it.
That being said, as far as I am concerned all these people, Brave included, are deeply in the club with each other. Brave also is partnered with Crypto.com, and so you really have to question just how legitimate their statements are. For now, I use Brave and a little of Opera; but I treat all browsers, social media platforms, and internet/tech services all the same: they all track and sell our data, and you should not be surprised at that like the masses are, constantly.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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As soon as Duck Duck Go started censoring a few months ago, I dropped them immediately and went with Brave search. I recommend it, it feels a lot like Google search (as far as the appearance and feel, that is), but yeah no doubt none of them are 100% legitimate, but Brave search is the best one (for now…).
I can’t stress enough though just how bad Opera is. I did research on that browser well over a year ago and lots of people were saying that Opera is one of the absolute worst browsers out there because they have been shown to sell data countless of times, over and over again (and the company is literally owned by China), I think they’re apparently the WORST when it comes to selling people’s data. That’s what I heard many times, at least. Brave browser is definitely a way better option.
I am convinced that ‘Brave’ is dialectic right window-dressing for the communitarian merge & hard swing right with nicolaitan idolatrous pre-Vatican II types, Rome and cronies firmly at the helm over their ‘survivors’, the supposed ones who are ‘smart enough’ to handle their devilish, corrupted & pragmatic crafted ‘truth’ and ‘Great Awakening/Qanon’ farce.
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…..’Smart enough’ to become MacArthur and Augustinian wrested word ‘slaves’ under their antichrist hierarchy & place-holder until the real & final one comes.
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Christ has called his own servants and friends. John 15, and full context of chapters 14-17 showing that he’s not just addressing the apostles& disciples…but those yet to come & who hadn’t seen with their eyes, yet would believe the witness & testimony: even us.
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Brave even uses that C.S. Lewis fake lion emoticon & unifier of MYSTERY & her idolatrous humanist sorcerers, witches and philosophers becoming ‘gods’. We must never forget that there are TWO lions represented in scripture, & one is a deceitful liar & the father of it. I’m ashamed how long it took me to see that. I still remember my husband & I looking at each other quizzically after the church-sponsored movie showing & asking ‘what was Christian about that?’….let alone where was the Gospel in it.
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Since their main idol is money & power, with most involved (in the US lower levels, at least) deceived & not full-on ‘official antichrist religionists’ ….just using it to draw and monopolize….I believe that it’s still of limited usefulness, like youtube, to those with a concern for souls & the Lord’s commission….so long as that is kept firmly & foremost in mind. Knowing precisely what you’re dealing with…& at what point to cut lose & separate as they ‘evolve’ their ‘transformation’, & fulfill the scriptures on the wrong side.
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Internationalizing the web under Obama was a big step toward their planned endgame & those of us using the web for research noticed it right off, not so much the gamers & young who likely never saw those big white screen red letter ‘verboten’ things that old routine Bible believing history & doctrine studies suddenly began displaying.
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The next time they ‘flip a switch’ it won’t be a temporary test like that was, & all the online King James Bible already have the footnoted markers to ‘transform’ them in place if you pay attention.
You need a trustworthy and personal, familiar hard copy Bible now even more than ever and going forward. A Cambridge edition if you can swing it & for the least likely tampered with.
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But, 1 Thessalonians 4-5 and Revelation 6-20…..they’re still the big losers, the deceiving and being deceived, these gnostic idolators who think they’re so smart. Jacob mentioned Psalm 73 in his ‘despising the honeycomb’ article, & that relates here as well. Along with caution not to confuse the defiling root of bitterness springing up amongst the brethren (Hebrews 12) with the attending bittersweet living & trials of those faithfully feeding upon the word & following Christ according to the word yet in this corruptible flesh, these vile bodies & dying world: yet continuing by the grace of God to become capable of rightly dividing, edification, exhortation and guidance in family or at large….and feeding the flock their proper diet in proper time & measure.
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There were types of the bitters in the passover remembrance of the old Mosaic system, too. See Exodus 12 and 15; Numbers 5 if interested. Numbers 5 & Hosea seem to relate to both the root and to those graffed in.
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Without Christ & the scriptures, plenty of prayer, who’s able or up to any of this?
And those acronyms are just creepy and telling: BAT (unclean winged thing), Wormhole (study THAT out in scripture: ‘worm/s’, ‘hole’, and synonym ‘pit’), Ethereum Virtual Machine….right in line with all the familiar spirit/alien garbage & ‘new’ science (including ‘natural’ and ‘alternative’ health….now full on & openly promoting Rudolph Steiner & such, the ‘god of forces’ etc). The chariots of God, the cherubs are also described as bestial living machines. Ezekiel 1-10.
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Some of these things are hinted at in the scriptures, but there is always that anti-, that opposite, & aether, the fifth element was part of alchemy and elemental magic; and the perversions always lean into the antichrist & occult, MYSTERY, when mis-translating the related passages. They are very consistent in this, and often with no textual justification at all.
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It’s a great antichrist unifier as all the idolatrous humanist antichrist cults hold with these things.
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When the days of Noe sons of God, daughters of men thing progresses via gmo & CRISPR, virtual reality etc (the ghost in the machine and AI with devils easily taking the helm), & ultimately with the spiritual warfare breaking out into the open and visible, men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth… the stage will have been set for a deceptive understanding & explanation for those still capable of thinking or living in reality at all.
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Luke 21:26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
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It looks like we could be seeing some precursors and conditioners for the later events in Revelation.
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ethereum….Latin. Aether (classical element)
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According to ancient and medieval science, aether (/ˈiːθər/, alternative spellings include æther, aither, and ether), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.[1]
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The concept of aether was used in several theories to explain several natural phenomena, such as the traveling of light and gravity. In the late 19th century, physicists postulated that aether permeated all throughout space, providing a medium through which light could travel in a vacuum, but evidence for the presence of such a medium was not found in the Michelson–Morley experiment, and this result has been interpreted as meaning that no such luminiferous aether exists.[2]
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(My note: The Michelson-Morley experiment also showed that the earth was spherical, but stationary & with the heavens revolving about it. You can see working orrery models and the science & physics involved at geocentricity.com ….I believe it’s significant that the Catholic Robert Sungenis came up with & promoted a Catholic/Buddhist geocentrISM which was promoted to distance people from Gerardus Bouw’s work and King James Bible championing, though Bouw was Dutch Reformed and Calvinist-Augustinian, & young earth. I believe the ancient Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 gap, & geocentricity best harmonizes with scripture & evident truth, true science. Sungenis & co are able to draw in & ‘unify’ the big young earth creationists & all the any-bible folks, along with the mystical physics & science club, Silicon Valley and so forth. )
continuing wiki …
Mythological origins
Main article: Aether (mythology)
See also: Empyrean
The word αἰθήρ (aithḗr) in Homeric Greek means “pure, fresh air” or “clear sky”.[3] In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the air breathed by mortals.[4] It is also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus and Nyx in traditional Greek mythology.[5] Aether is related to αἴθω “to incinerate”,[6] and intransitive “to burn, to shine” (related is the name Aithiopes (Ethiopians; see Aethiopia), meaning “people with a burnt (black) visage”).[7][8]
Fifth element
Medieval concept of the cosmos. The innermost spheres are the terrestrial spheres, while the outer are made of aether and contain the celestial bodies.
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(my note: counter this with scripture & note that when Deists & such use these terms, they mean quite different things: MYSTERY… 1 Corinthians 15 referring to the resurrection transformation of the saints, also wrest by those who think THEY are working the transformation, ‘becoming gods’ [Genesis 3] and so forth…
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1Co 15:38-53 KJB But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1Co 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
1Co 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.)
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continuing wiki article….(and bearing in mind that ALL of these pagan philosophers, Socrates, his student Plato, & Aristotle, his student… were all pederastic sodomites….THAT’s what the charge of undermining the character of the youth was about with Socrates. He had a choice between banishment from Athens or hemlock, & he took the hemlock. Aristotle then tutored Alexander the Great who thought himself a ‘god’. His mother and father, Philip of Macedon & Olympias, daughter of the king of Epirus, met at one of the MYSTERY initiation gatherings of the elite. She became his fourth & favorite wife for a time, until he found her sleeping with snakes & never frequented her bed again. In the pattern of Isis/Ashtar/Astarte etc & the old antichrist serpentine counterfeit fertility cults, and probably the events of Genesis 6 & then again afterwards resulting in the giants & mighty men of renown, Olympias claimed to have been overshadowed by Zeus/Apollo, the ‘true’ father of Alexander. According to Plutarch, she claimed to have a dream of a lightning bolt striking her womb with spreading fire, while Philip dreamed of his having sealed his wife’s womb with a seal engraved with a lion’s image.
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When Olympias fell into disfavor & Alexander’s claim to the throne threatened, Philip was assassinated. For all her scheming, the woman was pretty much rejected & abandoned by her son once he took power to himself & began conquering. She used magic, intrigue and every trick she could come up with trying to hold on to power & to secure the empire for Alexander’s wife, Roxanne, & Alexander’s infant son when they fled to her upon Alexander’s death. Cassander finally put her to death, and then Roxanne & the child a few years later. 309 BC ….very much antichrist types.)
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In Plato’s Timaeus (58d) speaking about air, Plato mentions that “there is the most translucent kind which is called by the name of aether (αἰθήρ)”[9] but otherwise he adopted the classical system of four elements.
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Aristotle, who had been Plato’s student at the Academy, agreed on this point with his former mentor, emphasizing additionally that fire has sometimes been mistaken for aether. However, in his Book On the Heavens he introduced a new “first” element to the system of the classical elements of Ionian philosophy.
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He noted that the four terrestrial classical elements were subject to change and naturally moved linearly. The first element however, located in the celestial regions and heavenly bodies, moved circularly and had none of the qualities the terrestrial classical elements had. It was neither hot nor cold, neither wet nor dry.
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With this addition the system of elements was extended to five and later commentators started referring to the new first one as the fifth and also called it aether, a word that Aristotle had not used.[10]
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Aether differed from the four terrestrial elements; it was incapable of motion of quality or motion of quantity. Aether was only capable of local motion. Aether naturally moved in circles, and had no contrary, or unnatural, motion. Aristotle also noted that celestial spheres made of aether held the stars and planets. The idea of aethereal spheres moving with natural circular motion led to Aristotle’s explanation of the observed orbits of stars and planets in perfectly circular motion.[1][11]
Medieval scholastic philosophers granted aether changes of density, in which the bodies of the planets were considered to be more dense than the medium which filled the rest of the universe.[12] Robert Fludd stated that the aether was “subtler than light”. Fludd cites the 3rd-century view of Plotinus, concerning the aether as penetrative and non-material.[13] See also Arche.
Quintessence
A stylized is sometimes used as a symbol for quintessence.[citation needed]
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Quintessence () is the Latinate name of the fifth element used by medieval alchemists for a medium similar or identical to that thought to make up the heavenly bodies. It was noted that there was very little presence of quintessence within the terrestrial sphere. Due to the low presence of quintessence, earth could be affected by what takes place within the heavenly bodies.[14]
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This theory was developed in the 14th century text The testament of Lullius, attributed to Ramon Llull[citation needed]. The use of quintessence became popular within medieval alchemy.
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Quintessence stemmed from the medieval elemental system, which consisted of the four classical elements, and aether, or quintessence, in addition to two chemical elements representing metals: sulphur, “the stone which burns”, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.
This elemental system spread rapidly throughout all of Europe and became popular with alchemists, especially in medicinal alchemy. Medicinal alchemy then sought to isolate quintessence and incorporate it within medicine and elixirs.[14] Due to quintessence’s pure and heavenly quality, it was thought that through consumption one may rid oneself of any impurities or illnesses.
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In The book of Quintessence, a 15th-century English translation of a continental text, quintessence was used as a medicine for many of man’s illnesses. A process given for the creation of quintessence is distillation of alcohol seven times.[15] Over the years, the term quintessence has become synonymous with elixirs, medicinal alchemy, and the philosopher’s stone itself.[16]
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All of these things are coming back into common vernacular & popularity again, promoted by Discover, Ancient Mysteries etc….including elemental magic. The ideas and principles were also promoted in fiction, movies and video games, especially to the young….it also paralleled the popularizing and normalization of sodomy & transhumanism. Very spiritual, and very antichrist, interconnecting, unifying, merging….
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Isa 59:1 ¶ Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isa 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isa 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isa 59:5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Isa 59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isa 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Isa 59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Isa 59:9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isa 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Isa 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isa 59:13 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.
Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isa 59:16 ¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isa 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isa 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Brevity is the soul of wit.