⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
^(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
^10 (B)We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.
¹¹ We all growl like bears,
And ^(C)moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.

^19 (A)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that ^(B)there is no healing for us?
^(C)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

⁶ If a ^[a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
^(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?