Isaiah 59:1-8

Modern English Version

59 Certainly, the hand of the Lord is not so short that it cannot save,
    nor is His ear so dull that it cannot hear.
² But your iniquities have made a separation between
    you and your God,
and your sins have hidden His face from you
    so that He will not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
    your tongue has muttered perverseness.
⁴ No one calls for justice,
    nor does anyone plead for truth.
They trust in vanity and speak lies;
    they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs
    and weave the spider’s web;
he who eats of their eggs dies,
    and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
⁶ Their webs shall not become garments,
    nor shall they cover themselves with their works;
their works are works of iniquity,
    and an act of violence is in their hands.
⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their ways;
they have made their paths crooked;
    whoever walks in them does not know peace.