9. Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.
11. We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.