RobH_en_tn/isa/59/03.md

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Isaiah continues speaking to the people of Israel.
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## For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin ##
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Here "hands" and "fingers" refers to their actions. This means they are guilty of doing violent and sinful things. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## they conceive trouble and give birth to sin ##
This emphasizes how carefully they plan to do sinful things. Here "they" still refers to the people of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])