1. No, the hand of the Lord is not too short to save,nor his ear too dull to hear.
2. Rather, it is your crimesthat separate you from your God,It is your sins that make him hide his faceso that he does not hear you.
3. For your hands are defiled with blood,and your fingers with crime;Your lips speak falsehood,and your tongue utters deceit.
4. No one brings suit justly,no one pleads truthfully;They trust an empty plea and tell lies;they conceive mischief and bring forth malice.
5. They hatch adders’ eggs,and weave spiders’ webs:Whoever eats the eggs will die,if one of them is crushed, it will hatch a viper;
6. Their webs cannot serve as clothing,nor can they cover themselves with their works.Their works are evil works,and deeds of violence are in their hands.
7. Their feet run to evil,and they hasten to shed innocent blood;Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness,violence and destruction are on their highways.
8. The way of peace they know not,and there is no justice on their paths;Their roads they have made crooked,no one who walks in them knows peace.
9. That is why judgment is far from usand justice does not reach us.We look for light, but there is darkness;for brightness, and we walk in gloom!
10. Like those who are blind we grope along the wall,like people without eyes we feel our way.We stumble at midday as if at twilight,among the vigorous, we are like the dead.