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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities: |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil makes himself prey. The LORD looked and was offended that there was no justice. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He saw that there was no man—He was amazed that there was no one to intercede; so His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So will they fear the name of the LORD from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun; for He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and My words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD. |
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