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.