7. Their feet run after evil. They rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Violence and ruin are on their highways.
8. They do not know the path of peace, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have made their paths crooked. Whoever walks in them will not experience shalom.
9. That is why justice is far from us and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but walk in gloom.
10. We grope along the wall like the blind. We grope like those with no eyes. We stumble at noon as at twilight. We are like the dead in desolation.
11. All of us growl like bears or moan like doves. We hope 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 we know our iniquities:
13. transgressing and denying Adonai, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
14. Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.