59 Listen, don’t think that Yahweh can’t rescue you,

≈ or that he won’t be able to hear you.

2 However, your disobedience causes separation between you all and your god,

≈ and your sins have made him turn away from listening to you,

3 because your hands are defiled with blood,

≈ and your fingers with sin.

Your lips spew out lies

and your tongue works against justice.

4 No one stands up for justice,

and no one pleads their case truthfully.

They rely on being meaningless, or fancy words of no value—

conceiving mischief and advancing wickedness.

5 They hatch vipers’ eggs

and weave spiders’ webs

Anyone who eats any of their eggs will die—

when they’re cracked open, a viper will be hatched.

6 Their weavings aren’t for clothes,

so they don’t cover themselves with their products.

Their products are products of wickedness,

and their hands are involved in violence.

7 Their feet run towards evil,

and they’re quick to shed innocent blood.

They’re always thinking about wickedness—

they walk the paths of causing ruin and destruction.

8 They don’t know the way of peace,

and there’s no justice on their tracks.

They’ve make their paths crooked—

none of those who tread on them will experience peace.