Isaiah 59:2–13

²But ^byour iniquities have separated between you and your God,

And your sins ^||have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

³For ^cyour hands ^dare defiled with blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips ^ehave spoken lies,

Your tongue hath ^mmuttered perverseness.

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

They trust ^gin vanity, and ^espeak lies;

^hiThey conceive mischief, and ⁱbring forth iniquity.

⁵They 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.

^6kTheir 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.

^7noTheir 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.

^8oThe 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.

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.