Behold, the Lord's
hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
02 But your iniquities have separated between you
and your God, and your sins have hid his face
from you, that he will not hear.
03 For your hands are defiled with blood, and
your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken
lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
04 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
05 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the
spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth,
and that which is crushed breaketh out into a
viper.
06 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.
07 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to
shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts
of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their
paths.
08 The way of peace they know not; and there is
no judgment in their goings: they have made them
crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace.
09 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither
doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but
behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we
grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon
day as in the night; we are in desolate places as
dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like
doves: we look for judgment, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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12 For our transgressions are multiplied before
thee, and our sins testify against us: for our
transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering
from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and
justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in
the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from
evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it,
and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm
brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he
put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will
repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his
enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from
the west, and his glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard
against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith
the Lord.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and
my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of
thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for
ever.
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