⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they hasten to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    devastation and destruction are in their highways.
⁸ They do not know the way of peace,
    and there is no justice in their firm paths.
They have made their paths crooked for themselves;
    everyone who walks^[a] in it knows no peace.
⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We wait for light, but^[b] look! there is darkness;
    for brightness, but we walk in darkness.