Isaiah 59

²But your iniquities have separated you and your God,

³For your hands are defiled with blood,

⁴No one sues in righteousness,

⁵They hatch adders’ eggs

⁶Their webs won’t become garments.

⁷Their feet run to evil,

⁸They don’t know the way of peace;

⁹Therefore justice is far from us,

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind.

¹¹We all roar like bears

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before you,

¹³transgressing and denying the LORD,

¹⁴Justice is turned away backward,

¹⁵Yes, truth is lacking;

¹⁶He saw that there was no man,

¹⁷He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

¹⁸According to their deeds,

¹⁹So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west,

²⁰“A Redeemer will come to Zion,

²¹“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”