Isaiah 59:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ We aren’t being treated fairly.
    We haven’t been set free yet.
The God who always does what is right
    hasn’t come to help us.
We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness.
    We look for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
¹⁰ Like blind people we feel our way along the wall.
    We are like those who can’t see.
At noon we trip and fall as if the sun had already set.
    Compared to those who are healthy, we are like dead people.
¹¹ All of us growl like hungry bears.
    We sound like doves as we mourn.
We want the Lord to do what is fair and save us.
    But he doesn’t do it.
We long for him to set us free.
    But the time for that seems far away.