² But your ^(A)wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ^[a]face from you so that He does ^(B)not hear.
³ For your ^(C)hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with wrongdoing;
Your lips have spoken ^(D)deceit,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
^4 (E)No one sues righteously and ^(F)no one pleads ^[b]honestly.
They ^(G)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^(H)conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and ^(I)weave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^(J)cover themselves with their works;
Their ^(K)works are works of wrongdoing,
And an ^(L)act of violence is in their ^[c]hands.
^7 (M)Their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
^(N)Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They do not know the ^(O)way of peace,
And there is ^(P)no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^(Q)Whoever walks on ^[d]them does not know peace.

⁹ Therefore ^(R)justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not reach us;
We ^(S)hope for light, but there is darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
¹⁰ We ^(T)grope for the wall like people who are blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We ^(U)stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are ^(V)like the dead.
¹¹ All of us growl like bears,
And ^(W)moan sadly like doves;
We hope for ^(X)justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.
¹² For our ^(Y)wrongful acts have multiplied before You,
And our ^(Z)sins have testified against us;
For our wrongful acts are with us,
And ^[e]we know our wrongdoings:
^13 [f]Offending and ^(AA)denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking ^(AB)oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and ^(AC)uttering lying words from the heart.

⁵ Her adversaries have become ^[a]her masters,
Her enemies are ^[b]secure;
For the Lord has ^[c](A)caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives ^[d]led by the enemy.

²⁰ See, Lord, for I am in distress;
My ^[a](A)spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very ^(B)rebellious.
In the street the sword has made women childless;
In the house it is like death.