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Societal sinfulness

Isa 59:9–15

59:9 Societal sinfulness

9 Therefore, justice is far from us

and righteousness doesn’t reach us.

We wait for light, but look, we get darkness.

We wait for gleams of light, but walk in the gloom.

10 We grope along the wall like the blind,

and feel around as though we had no eyes.

Even at midday, we stumble as if it’s twilight—

among the living but behaving like the dead.

11 All of us growl like bears,

≈ and moan mournfully like doves.

We keep hoping for justice, but none comes,

≈ for rescue, but it’s far away

12 because our transgressions in front of you are many.

≈ Our sins have testified against us

because our transgressions are with us,

≈ and as for our iniquities, we know them.

13 We’ve rebelled and denied Yahweh,

and turned away from following our god—

promoting oppression and rebellion instead.

We’ve conceived and told lies as if they were the heart-felt truth.

14 Justice is driven right back,

and righteousness stands off at a distance,

because truth has stumbled in the public square,

and honesty can’t enter.

15 So then truth went missing,

and the one who turned away from evil got robbed.

Yahweh saw it and wasn’t pleased that there was no justice.

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9 Therefore yes/correct/thus/so justice it _is _far from_him/it and_not it_reaches _us righteousness we _wait _eagerly to _the_light and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE darkness for_gleams _of _light in_gloom(s) we _walk.

10 We _grope _for like _(the)_people a _wall and_like_there_are_not eyes we _grope we _have _stumbled at_noon(s) like_twilight among_people like_who _have]_died.

11 We _growl like_bears of _us _of_all and_like_doves mournfully _(moan) we _moan we _wait _eagerly for_justice and_there_is_not for_deliverance it _is _far from_us.

12 If/because transgressions _of_our they _are _many before_you and_sins _of_our it _has _testified against_us if/because transgressions _of_our are_with_us and_iniquities _of_our we_know _them.

13 We _have _transgressed and_we _have _denied (in)_YHWH and_we _have _turned _back from_after god _of_our we _have _spoken oppression and_rebellion we _have _conceived and_we _have _uttered from_the_heart words/messages _of falsehood.

14 And_it _has _been _driven _back backwards justice and_righteousness from_a _distance it _stands if/because it _has _stumbled in_place truth and_straightforwardness not it _is _able to_enter.

15 And_ (the)_truth _it _became missing and_one _who_turned _aside from_evil was_plundered and_ YHWH _he/it _saw and_it _was _displeasing in_eyes _of_his that/for/because/then/when there_was_not justice.