9Therefore ajusticeisfar from us,And righteousness does not overtake us;We bhope for light, but behold, darkness,For brightness, but we walk in thickdarkness.10We agrope along the wall like blindmen;We grope like those who havenoeyes;We bstumble at midday as in the twilight,Among those whoarevigorouswe areclike dead men.11All of us growl like bears,And amoansadly like doves;We hope for bjustice, but thereisnone,For salvation, but it isfar from us.12For our atransgressions are multipliedbefore You,And our bsinsanswer against us;For our transgressions are with us,And 1we know our iniquities:13Transgressing and adenyingYahweh,And turningback from our God,Speakingboppression and revolt,Conceivingin and cuttering from the heartlyingwords.14aJustice is turnedback,And brighteousnessstandsfaraway;For truth has stumbled in the street,And rightness cannot enter.15So it is that truthismissing;And he who turnsaside from evilamakes himself plunder.Then Yahwehsaw,And it was evil in His eyesbthat therewasnojustice.
