8. The way of peace they did not know; nor is there anything straight about their ways; they have wilfully made themselves crooked paths; whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9. Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.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 as if we had no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in graves as dead men.
11. We all roar like bears and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for saving health, but it has withdrawn from us.
12. For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities are with us; and we know our sins:
13. To rebel and to lie against the Lord, and to depart away from our God; the speaking of libel and rebellion, to conceive, and to speak from the heart words of falsehood,