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.