Thomson(i)
1 It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor that his ear is grown dull to hear;
2 but your sins make a separation between you and your God; and on account of your sins he hath turned away his face from you that he may not exercise compassion.
3 For your hands are polluted with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips have spoken iniquity, and your tongue contriveth injustice.
4 None speaketh just things, nor is there any just judgment. They trusted in vanities and they speak lies. Because they hatch mischief, therefore they bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatched the eggs of asps, and are weaving a spider's web; and he who was about to eat some of their eggs, upon breaking one that was hatched found therein a viper.
6 Their web will not serve for a mantle, nor can they clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity
7 Their feet are running to evil; they are swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasonings for murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways,
8 and the path of peace they do not know, nor is there any judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are crooked and peace they do not know.
9 Therefore judgment is far from them, and saving mercy shall not overtake them. When they were waiting for light, darkness came upon them, expecting a blaze of light they walked in obscurity.
10 They shall grope like blind men for a wall and feel about like men who have no eyes, and fall at midday as at midnight.
11 When dying they will groan like a bear and mourn like a dove; and at their departing say, "We waited for judgment and there is none: and as for safety, it is far from us.
12 For our manifold iniquity is before thee; and our sins are risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our transgressions.
13 We have sinned: we have lied, and turned back from following our God; we have spoken things unjust, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and meditated from our heart lying words,
14 we have indeed turned judgment backward, therefore saving mercy standeth aloof." [p] Because truth was destroyed in their ways and; they could not walk in straight paths;
15 and truth was removed and they substituted opinion in place of knowledge, therefore the Lord took a view, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.