^{1 Ref} Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:

^{2 Ref} but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

^{3 Ref} For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

^{4 Ref} None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

^{5 Ref} They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

^{6 Ref} Their 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.

^{7 Ref} Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

^{8 Ref} The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

^{9 Ref} Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

^{10 Ref} We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

^{11 Ref} We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

^{12 Ref} For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

^{13 Ref} transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

^{14 Ref} Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

^{15 Ref} Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.