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.
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.
17. He put on righteousness as a breastplate,and a helmet of salvation on his head;he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
18. According to their deeds, so will he repay,wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
19. So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west,and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream,which the wind of the Lord drives.
20. “And a Redeemer will come to Zion,to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.