7. Their feet run to do evil,and they rush to commit murder.They think only about sinning.Misery and destruction always follow them.
8. They don’t know where to find peaceor what it means to be just and good.They have mapped out crooked roads,and no one who follows them knows a moment’s peace.
9. So there is no justice among us,and we know nothing about right living.We look for light but find only darkness.We look for bright skies but walk in gloom.
10. We grope like the blind along a wall,feeling our way like people without eyes.Even at brightest noontime,we stumble as though it were dark.Among the living,we are like the dead.
11. We growl like hungry bears;we moan like mournful doves.We look for justice, but it never comes.We look for rescue, but it is far away from us.
12. For our sins are piled up before Godand testify against us.Yes, we know what sinners we are.
13. We know we have rebelled and have denied the lord.We have turned our backs on our God.We know how unfair and oppressive we have been,carefully planning our deceitful lies.
14. Our courts oppose the righteous,and justice is nowhere to be found.Truth stumbles in the streets,and honesty has been outlawed.
15. Yes, truth is gone,and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.The lord looked and was displeasedto find there was no justice.
16. He was amazed to see that no one intervenedto help the oppressed.So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm,and his justice sustained him.
17. He put on righteousness as his body armorand placed the helmet of salvation on his head.He clothed himself with a robe of vengeanceand wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.