1 It is not on account of any deficiency in the power of the LORD that you are not saved, nor because it is too difficult for Him to hear that your prayer is not received; 2 but your iniquities separate between you and your God, and your sins have caused Him to take away the favor of His Shekinah from you, so as not to receive your prayer. 3 For your hands are defiled with innocent blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue mutters deceit. 4 There is none who truly prays, nor any who pleads for faithfulness; they trust in worthlessness and speak lies; they hasten and bring forth words of violence out of their heart. 5 They hatch the eggs of a viper, and they weave the threads of spiders; he who eats of their eggs dies, and when they are hatched, they bring forth flying serpents. 6 Like a spider’s web, with which no one can be covered, so there is no profit from the works of the wicked; their works are works of violence, and the work of a lie is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to do evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of violence, plunder 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 perverted their ways; whoever goes in them will not know peace. 9 Therefore judgment is removed far from us, and the least righteousness does not meet us; we wait for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday like those who stumble in the dark; it is shut up before us, as the graves are shut up before the dead. 11 We all roar like bears because of our enemies who are gathered against us, and we mourn like doves; we hoped for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far removed from us. 12 For our iniquities are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our iniquities are revealed to us, and our crimes, we know them: 13 we have rebelled and acted falsely against the Memra of the LORD; we have turned backward from following after the worship of our God; we have spoken falsehood and apostasy, conceiving and bringing forth lying words from our hearts. 14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far off; for those who follow truth stumble in the street, and those who follow faithfulness cannot show themselves. 15 And those who follow truth are hidden, and those who depart from evil become a prey. It is revealed before the LORD that there is no justice, which is evil in His sight. 16 And it is revealed in His sight that there is no man who has good works, and it is known to Him that there is no man who would arise and seek after them; therefore He will redeem them by the arm of His strength, and by the Memra of His delight He will help them. 17 It is revealed that He will work a great salvation for His people; yes, He will render vengeance to His enemies. 18 He is the Lord of retributions; He will render recompense, vengeance to His enemies, retribution to His adversaries; He will render recompense to the islands. 19 They will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the oppressors come in like a flood of the river Euphrates, they will be broken by the Memra of the LORD.⁠a 20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and turn the transgressors of the house of Jacob to the Torah, says the LORD. 21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD, “My Holy Spirit that is upon you, and the words of my prophecy that I have put in your mouth, will not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your children, nor out of the mouth of your children’s children, says the LORD, from now on and forever.”