Separation from Yahweh
Behold, athe hand of Yahweh is not so short
That it cannot save;
bNor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.
2 But your ainiquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does bnot hear.
3 For your ahands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken a blie;
Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.
4 aNo one calls in righteousness, and bno one seeks justice in truth.
They ctrust in confusion and speak worthlessness;
They dconceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.
5 They break open vipers’ eggs and aweave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
6 Their webs will not become a garment,
Nor will they acover themselves with their works;
Their bworks are works of wickedness,
And a cdeed of violence is in their hands.
7 aTheir feet run to evil,
And they are quick to shed innocent blood;
bTheir thoughts are thoughts of wickedness;
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
8 They do not know the away of peace,
And there is bno justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
cWhoever treads on them does not know peace.