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.
15 Truth is lacking,and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.The Lord saw it, and it displeased himthat there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,and wondered that there was no one to intercede;then his own arm brought him salvation,and his righteousness upheld him.