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Their feet run to evil,
    and they rush to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths.
Their roads they have made crooked;
    no one who walks in them knows peace.

Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us;
we wait for light, and lo! there is darkness;
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(A)
They pursue evil schemes;(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(C)
The way of peace they do not know;(D)
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;(E)
    no one who walks along them will know peace.(F)

So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;(G)
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

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