Isaiah 59:2–13

²But your ^ainiquities have made a separation between you and your God,

And your sins have hidden His ¹face from you so that He does ^bnot hear.

³For your ^ahands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken a ^blie;

Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

^4aNo one calls in righteousness, and ^bno one seeks justice in truth.

They ^ctrust in ¹confusion and speak worthlessness;

They ^dconceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

⁵They break open vipers’ eggs and ^aweave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

⁶Their webs will not become a garment,

Nor will they ^acover themselves with their works;

Their ^bworks are works of wickedness,

And a ^cdeed of violence is in their ¹hands.

^7aTheir feet run to evil,

And they are quick to shed innocent blood;

^bTheir thoughts are thoughts of wickedness;

Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

⁸They do not know the ^away of peace,

And there is ^bno justice in their tracks;

They have made their paths crooked,

^cWhoever treads on ¹them does not know peace.

Trangressing and Denying Yahweh

⁹Therefore ^ajustice is far from us,

And righteousness does not overtake us;

We ^bhope for light, but behold, darkness,

For brightness, but we walk in thick darkness.

¹⁰We ^agrope along the wall like blind men;

We grope like those who have no eyes;

We ^bstumble at midday as in the twilight,

Among those who are vigorous we are ^clike dead men.

¹¹All of us growl like bears,

And ^amoan sadly like doves;

We hope for ^bjustice, but there is none,

For salvation, but it is far from us.

¹²For our ^atransgressions are multiplied before You,

And our ^bsins answer against us;

For our transgressions are with us,

And ¹we know our iniquities:

¹³Transgressing and ^adenying Yahweh,

And turning back from our God,

Speaking ^boppression and revolt,

Conceiving in and ^cuttering from the heart lying words.