1. Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,That it cannot save;Nor His ear heavy,That it cannot hear.
2. But your iniquities have separated you from your God;And your sins have hidden His face from you,So that He will not hear.
3. For your hands are defiled with blood,And your fingers with iniquity;Your lips have spoken lies,Your tongue has muttered perversity.
4. No one calls for justice,Nor does any plead for truth.They trust in empty words and speak lies;They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
5. They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;He who eats of their eggs dies,And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
6. Their webs will not become garments,Nor will they cover themselves with their works;Their works are works of iniquity,And the 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;Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8. The way of peace they have not known,And there is no justice in their ways;They have made themselves crooked paths;Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.