LEB(i)
2 Rather, your iniquities have been ⌊barriers⌋* between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.
4 There is nobody ⌊who pleads with⌋* justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
5 they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent.
6 Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, 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 iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their highways.
8 They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone ⌊who walks⌋* in it knows no peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but* look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope like the blind along a wall, and we grope ⌊as without⌋* eyes. We stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the strong we are like the dead.
11 We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but* there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins ⌊testify⌋* against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning ⌊away from following⌋* our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart.