Isaiah 59:2–8

2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God;

And your sins have hidden His face from you,

So that He will bnot hear.

3 For cyour hands are defiled with 1blood,

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken lies,

Your tongue has muttered perversity.

4 No one calls for justice,

Nor does any plead for truth.

They trust in dempty words and speak lies;

eThey conceive 2evil and bring forth iniquity.

5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;

He who eats of their eggs dies,

And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

6 fTheir webs will not become garments,

Nor will they cover themselves with their works;

Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is in their hands.

7 gTheir feet run to evil,

And they make haste to shed hinnocent blood;

iTheir thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

Wasting and jdestruction are in their paths.

8 The way of kpeace they have not known,

And there is no justice in their ways;

lThey have made themselves crooked paths;

Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.