Isaiah 59:4–10

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.

Sin Confessed

9 Therefore justice is far from us,

Nor does righteousness overtake us;

mWe look for light, but there is darkness!

For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

10 nWe grope for the wall like the blind,

And we grope as if we had no eyes;

We stumble at noonday as at twilight;

We are as dead men in desolate places.