9 Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness does not reach us.

We wait for light, butg look! there is darkness;

for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

10 We grope like the blind along a wall,

and we grope ⌊as without⌋h eyes.

We stumble at noon as in the twilight;

among the strong we are like the dead.

11 We all groan like bears,

and we coo mutteringly like doves.

We wait for justice, buti there is none;

for salvation, but it is far from us.

12 For our transgressions are numerous before you,

and our sins ⌊testify⌋j against us.

Indeed, our transgressions are with us,

and we know our iniquities:

13 transgressing and denying Yahweh,

and turning ⌊away from following⌋k our God;

speaking oppression and falsehood,

conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart.

14 And justice is pushed back,

and righteousness stands afar;

for truth stumbles in the public square,

and straightforwardness is unable to enter,

15 and truth is missing,

and he who turns aside from evil is plundered.

And Yahweh saw,

and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice