23:059:002 But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God,
and
your sins have hid his face from you, that he will
not
hear.
23:059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with
iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered
perverseness.
23:059:004 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth
for truth: they
trust
in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
and
bring
forth iniquity.
23:059:005 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and
weave the spider’s web: he
that
eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh
out into a viper.
23:059:006 Their webs shall not become garments, neither
shall they cover
themselves
with their works: their works are works of
iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
23:059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste
to shed innocent
blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction
are in their paths.
23:059:008 The way of peace they know not; and there
is no judgment in
their
goings: they have made them crooked paths:
whosoever
goeth
therein shall not know peace.
23:059:009 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither
doth justice
overtake
us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness,
but we walk in darkness.
23:059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind, and
we grope as if we
had
no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night;
we are in
desolate
places as dead men.
23:059:011 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore
like doves: we look for
judgment,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off
from
us.
23:059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before
thee, and our
sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are
with us;
and
as for our iniquities, we know them;
23:059:013 In transgressing and lying against the
lord, and departing
away
from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
23:059:014 And judgment is turned away backward, and
justice standeth
afar
off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity
cannot
enter.
23:059:015 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth
from evil maketh
himself
a prey: and the lord saw it, and it displeased
him
that
there was no judgment.
23:059:016 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was
no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him;
and
his righteousness, it sustained him.


