Their feet run after evil,(A)
and they rush to shed innocent blood.(B)
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;(C)
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
They have not known the path of peace,(D)
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.(E)

Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.

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