Isaiah 59:2-13 But your sins separate between you [and your God,] and because of your sins hath he turned his face away from you, not to have mercy upon you.

Ottley⁽ⁱ⁾ ² But your sins separate between you [[and your God,]] and because of your sins hath he turned his face away from you, not to have mercy upon you. ³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers in sins; and your lips have spoken transgression, and your tongue doth meditate wrong-doing. ⁴ No man speaketh righteousness, nor is there any true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty words; for they have conceived trouble, and bring forth transgression. ⁵ They brake the eggs of asps, and weave the web of a spider; and he that trieth to eat of their eggs, when he breaketh it he findeth wind, and in it is a basilisk. ⁶ Their web shall not be for a garment; nor shall they be clothed with their works; for their works are works of transgression. ⁷ And their feet run after wickedness, swift to shed blood, and their reasonings (are) the reasonings of fools; destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, ⁸ And a way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are perverted, and they know not peace. ⁹ Therefore did their judgment depart from them, and righteousness shall not take hold of them; when (they) waited for light, darkness came upon them; they waited for a shining, and walked in midnight gloom. ¹⁰ They shall grope like blind men for a wall, and as though they had no eyes shall they grope; and they shall fall at noonday as though at midnight, they shall groan as dying men: ¹¹ As a bear and as a dove together shall they go: we waited for judgment, and there is none; salvation is far removed from us. ¹² For manifold is our transgression before thee, and our sins stand forth against us; for our transgressions are in us, and our wrong doings we have learnt.