Isaiah 59:7-9

Modern English Version

⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    devastation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their ways;
they have made their paths crooked;
    whoever walks in them does not know peace.

⁹ Therefore, justice is far from us,
    nor does righteousness overtake us;
we wait for light, but there is darkness,
    for brightness, but we walk in gloom.