ECB(i)
3 For you profane your palms with blood and your fingers with perversity; your lips word falsehoods your tongue mutters wickedness:
4 no one calls for justness and no one pleads for trustworthiness: they confide in waste and word vanity; they conceive toil and birth mischief:
5 they split the eggs of the hisser, and weave the web of the spider: he who eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg splits into a hisser.
6 Neither their webs become clothes, nor cover they themselves with their works: their works are works of mischief and the deed of violence is in their palms.
7 Their feet run to evil and they hasten to pour innocent blood: their fabrications are fabrications of mischief; ravage and breaking are in their highways:
8 the way of shalom they know not and there is no judgment in their route: they make them perverted paths; whoever treads therein knows not shalom.
9 So judgment removes far from us and justness overtakes us not: we await light; and behold, obscurity: for brilliancies; and we walk in darkness:
10 we grope for the wall as the blind; and we grope as if we have no eyes: we falter at noon as in the evening breeze; in fertile fields as the dead:
11 we roar as bears - we all; and in cooing, coo as doves: we await judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it removes far from us.
12 For our rebellions abound by the myriads in front of you; and our sins answer against us: for our rebellions are with us; and as for our perversities, we know them.
13 In rebelling and lying against Yah Veh; and departing from our Elohim: wording oppression and revolt; conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood:
14 and judgment removes backward and justness stands afar off: for truth falters in the broadway and straightforwardness cannot enter.
15 Yes, truth lacks; and he who turns aside from evil, spoils: and Yah Veh sees, and it is evil in his eyes that there is no judgment.