Isaiah 59:1-8

1Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

3For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

4No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

5They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.

6Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.