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For this reason justice is far from us; and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, in deserted places like ones dying.

We all of us roar like bears, and moaning we moan like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

For our rebellions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities;

transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart.

And justice is driven back; and righteousness stands far off; for truth stumbles in the plaza, and right is not able to enter.

And the truth is lacking; and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw; and it was evil in His eyes, that there was no justice.