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.
14. Justice is turned backward,and righteousness stands far off;for truth is fallen in the street,and equity cannot enter.
15. Truth is lacking,and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Himthat there was no justice.
16. He saw that there was no manand was astonished that there was no intercessor;therefore, His own arm brought salvation to Him,and His righteousness sustained Him.
17. For He put on righteousness as a breastplateand a helmet of salvation on His head;He put on the garments of vengeance for clothingand was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18. According to their deeds,accordingly He will repay:fury to His adversaries,recompense to His enemies;to the islands He will make recompense.
19. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the westand His glory from the rising of the sun;when the enemy shall come in like a flood,the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20. The Redeemer shall come to Zionand to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,says the Lord.