Isaiah 59:3–14

3  For cyour hands dare defiled with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips ehave spoken lies,

Your tongue hath mmuttered perverseness.

4  None calleth for justice, nor any fpleadeth for truth:

They trust gin vanity, and espeak lies;

hiThey conceive mischief, and ibring forth iniquity.

5  They hatch ||cockatrice’ eggs,

And weave kthe spider’s web:

He that eateth of their eggs dieth,

And ||lthat which is crushed breaketh out into ma viper.

6  kTheir webs shall not become garments,

Neither shall they cover themselves with their works:

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is in their hands.

7  noTheir feet run to evil,

nAnd they make haste to shed innocent blood:

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

opWasting and †destruction are in their paths.

8  oThe way of peace they know not;

And there is no ||judgment in their qgoings:

rThey have made them crooked paths:

Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

9  Therefore is judgment far from us,

Neither doth justice overtake us:

sWe wait for light, but behold obscurity;

For brightness, but twe walk in darkness.

10  uWe grope for the wall like the blind,

And we grope as if we had no eyes:

We stumble uat noonday as in the night;

We are in desolate places as dead men.

11  We roar all like bears,

And vmourn sore like doves:

sWe look for judgment, but there is none;

For salvation, but it is far off from us.

12  For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,

And our sins testify against us:

For our transgressions are with us;

And as for our iniquities, wwe know them;

13  In transgressing and lying against the Lord,

And xdeparting away from our God,

Speaking oppression and revolt,

Conceiving and yuttering zfrom the heart ewords of falsehood.

14  And judgment is xturned away backward,

And justice standeth afar off:

For truth is fallen in the street,

And aequity cannot enter.