3 For your hands are stained with blood,your fingers with guilt.Your lips have spoken falsely,and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice;no one pleads a case with integrity.They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies;they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipersand spin a spider’s web.Whoever eats their eggs will die,and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;they cannot cover themselves with what they make.Their deeds are evil deeds,and acts of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet rush into sin;they are swift to shed innocent blood.They pursue evil schemes;acts of violence mark their ways.
8 The way of peace they do not know;there is no justice in their paths.They have turned them into crooked roads;no one who walks along them will know peace.
9 So justice is far from us,and righteousness does not reach us.We look for light, but all is darkness;for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.