^{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.