11. We all roar like bears and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for saving health, but it has withdrawn from us.
12. For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities are with us; and we know our sins:
13. To rebel and to lie against the Lord, and to depart away from our God; the speaking of libel and rebellion, to conceive, and to speak from the heart words of falsehood,
14. and that which is right has departed, and righteousness withdrew afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity could not enter.
15. And the truth was taken captive; and he that departed from evil was imprisoned: and the Lord saw it, and it was displeasing in his eyes because that which is right was lost.
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.
17. For he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of saving health upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak,