12 For our transgressions before you are many,our sins bear witness against us.Our transgressions are present to us,and our crimes we acknowledge:
13 Transgressing, and denying the Lord,turning back from following our God,Planning fraud and treachery,uttering lying words conceived in the heart.
14 Judgment is turned away,and justice stands far off;For truth stumbles in the public square,and uprightness cannot enter.
15 Fidelity is lacking,and whoever turns from evil is despoiled.The Lord saw this, and was aggrievedthat there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no one,was appalled that there was none to intervene;Then his own arm brought about the victory,and his justice sustained him.
17 He put on justice as his breastplate,victory as a helmet on his head;He clothed himself with garments of vengeance,wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal.
18 According to their deeds he repays his enemiesand requites his foes with wrath;to the coastlands he renders recompense.