Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
For your hands are filled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.
No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they 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; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS,
AND LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES.
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED TO HEAVEN,
AND GOD HAS REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES.
