1. Certainly, the hand of the Lord is not so short that it cannot save,nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
2. But your iniquities have made a separation betweenyou and your God,and your sins have hidden His face from youso that He will not hear.
3. For your hands are defiled with bloodand your fingers with iniquity;your lips have spoken lies,your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4. No one calls for justice,nor does anyone plead for truth.They trust in vanity and speak lies;they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5. They hatch adders’ eggsand weave the spider’s web;he who eats of their eggs dies,and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6. Their webs shall not become garments,nor shall they cover themselves with their works;their works are works of iniquity,and an act of violence is in their hands.
7. Their feet run to evil,and they make haste to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8. The way of peace they do not know,and there is no justice in their ways;they have made their paths crooked;whoever walks in them does not know peace.
9. Therefore, justice is far from us,nor does righteousness overtake us;we wait for light, but there is darkness,for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10. We grope along the wall like the blind,and we grope as if we had no eyes;we stumble at noonday as in the night;among those who are vigorous, we are as dead men.
11. We all roar like bearsand mourn sadly like doves;we look for justice, but there is none;for salvation, but it is far from us.
12. For our transgressions are multiplied before You,and our sins testify against us;for our transgressions are with us.And as for our iniquities, we know them:
13. 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.