Isaiah 59:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ “So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We wait for light, but look—there is darkness;
    we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.^[a]
10 Let’s grope^[b] along the wall like the blind;
    let us grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as if it were twilight,
    in desolate places^[c] like dead people.
¹¹ We all growl like bears;
    we^[d] sigh mournfully like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
    and^[e] for deliverance, but it’s far from us.