The Evil That People Do

   Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.

   It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.

   Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your lips are full of lies, and your mouth spews corruption.

   No one cares about being fair and honest. The people’s lawsuits are based on lies. They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to sin.

   They hatch deadly snakes and weave spiders’ webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die; whoever cracks them will hatch a viper.

   Their webs can’t be made into clothing, and nothing they do is productive. All their activity is filled with sin, and violence is their trademark.

   Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder. They think only about sinning. Misery and destruction always follow them.

   They don’t know where to find peace or what it means to be just and good. They have mapped out crooked roads, and no one who follows them knows a moment’s peace.

(Isaiah 59:1-8, New Living Translation)

I took this picture out by my clothesline about a week ago. I thought it looked kind of cool and that there surely would be a Bible verse about spider webs which I could use here today. I only found two in the Bible Gateway website. The other one, in the book of Job, was pretty good also. But this one? Holy cow. As usual, God has got this, and there’s nothing more I can add.