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14 Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the street,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
15 So now truth is missing,
and whoever shuns evil becomes prey.

Now when Adonai saw it, it was displeasing in His eyes
    that there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no one—
He was astonished that no one was interceding.[a]
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him,
and His righteousness upheld Him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:16 cf. Heb. 7:25.