7. Their feet run to evil,and they are swift to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;desolation and destruction are in their highways.
8. The way of peace they do not know,and there is no justice in their paths;they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
9. Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness,and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10. We grope for the wall like the blind;we grope like those who have no eyes;we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
11. We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none;for salvation, but it is far from us.
12. For our transgressions are multiplied before you,and our sins testify against us;for our transgressions are with us,and we know our iniquities:
13. transgressing, and denying the Lord,and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt,conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
14. Justice is turned back,and righteousness stands far away;for truth has stumbled in the public squares,and uprightness cannot enter.