⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
¹⁰ We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.^(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

¹³ He is here:
the one who forms the mountains,^(A)
creates the wind,^(B)
and reveals his thoughts to man,^(C)
the one who makes the dawn out of darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth.^(D)
The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.^(E)