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

Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not overtake us;
(C)we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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