Isaiah 59:2-8

New American Standard Bible

² But your ^(A)wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His ^[a]face from you so that He does ^(B)not hear.
³ For your ^(C)hands are defiled with blood,
And your fingers with wrongdoing;
Your lips have spoken ^(D)deceit,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
^4 (E)No one sues righteously and ^(F)no one pleads ^[b]honestly.
They ^(G)trust in confusion and speak lies;
They ^(H)conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.
⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and ^(I)weave the spider’s web;
The one who eats of their eggs dies,
And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they ^(J)cover themselves with their works;
Their ^(K)works are works of wrongdoing,
And an ^(L)act of violence is in their ^[c]hands.
^7 (M)Their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed innocent blood;
^(N)Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,
Devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They do not know the ^(O)way of peace,
And there is ^(P)no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,
^(Q)Whoever walks on ^[d]them does not know peace.