⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering^(A) and come into his courts.^(B)

⁹ So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;^(A)
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

⁶ They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,
    who brought us up out of Egypt^(A)
and led us through the barren wilderness,
    through a land of deserts^(B) and ravines,^(C)
a land of drought and utter darkness,
    a land where no one travels^(D) and no one lives?’

¹² “Therefore their path will become slippery;^(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,^(B)”
declares the Lord.