Isaiah 59:9–15

⁹Therefore is judgment far from us,

Neither doth justice overtake us:

^sWe wait for light, but behold obscurity;

For brightness, but ^twe walk in darkness.

^10uWe 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.

¹¹We 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.

¹²For 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;

¹³In 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.

¹⁴And judgment is ^xturned away backward,

And justice standeth afar off:

For truth is fallen in the street,

And ^aequity cannot enter.

¹⁵Yea, truth ^bfaileth;

And he that departeth from evil ^cmaketh himself a prey:

And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him

That there was no judgment.