⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
^(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
^10 (B)We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.