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58.14 :And I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
 * And I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father;
 * For the mouth of the hath spoken it.


 * Behold, the hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
 * Neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear;
 * But your iniquities have separated
 * Between you and your God,
 * And your sins have hid His face from you,
 * That He will not hear.
 * For your hands are defiled with blood,
 * And your fingers with iniquity;
 * Your lips have spoken lies,
 * Your tongue muttereth wickedness.
 * None sueth in righteousness,
 * And none pleadeth in truth;
 * They trust in vanity, and speak lies,
 * They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 * They hatch basilisks' eggs,
 * And weave the spider's web;
 * He that eateth of their eggs dieth,
 * And that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
 * Their webs shall not become garments,
 * Neither shall men cover themselves with their works;
 * Their works are works of iniquity,
 * And the act of violence is in their hands.
 * Their feet run to evil,
 * And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
 * Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
 * Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
 * The way of peace they know not,
 * And there is no right in their goings;
 * They have made them crooked paths,
 * Whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.


 * Therefore is justice far from us,
 * Neither doth righteousness overtake us;
 * We look for light, but behold darkness,
 * For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
 * We grope for the wall like the blind,
 * Yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope;
 * We stumble at noonday as in the twilight;
 * We are in dark places like the dead.
 * We all growl like bears,
 * And mourn sore like doves;
 * We look for right, but there is none;
 * For salvation, but it is far off from us.


 * For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee,
 * And our sins testify against us;
 * For our transgressions are present to us,
 * And as for our iniquities, we know them:
 * Transgressing and denying the ,
 * And turning away from following our God,
 * Speaking oppression and perverseness,
 * Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
 * And justice is turned away backward,
 * And righteousness standeth afar off;