6. Their webs shall not become garments,nor shall they cover themselves with their works;their works are works of iniquity,and an act of violence is in their hands.
7. Their feet run to evil,and they make haste to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8. The way of peace they do not know,and there is no justice in their ways;they have made their paths crooked;whoever walks in them does not know peace.
9. Therefore, justice is far from us,nor does righteousness overtake us;we wait for light, but there is darkness,for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10. We grope along the wall like the blind,and we grope as if we had no eyes;we stumble at noonday as in the night;among those who are vigorous, we are as dead men.
11. We all roar like bearsand mourn sadly like doves;we look 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 as for our iniquities, we know them:
13. 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. Justice is turned backward,and righteousness stands far off;for truth is fallen in the street,and equity cannot enter.
15. Truth is lacking,and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Himthat there was no justice.
16. He saw that there was no manand was astonished that there was no intercessor;therefore, His own arm brought salvation to Him,and His righteousness sustained Him.