1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid {his} face from you, that he doth not hear.3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:4 none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.5 They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;8 the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.9 Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, {but} we walk in obscurity.10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.11 We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, {but} it is far from us.12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:13 in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.14 And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.15 And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw {it}, and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment.16 And he saw that there was no man, and he wondered that there was no intercessor; and his arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness, it sustained him.17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance {for} clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.18 According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.19 And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a banner against him.20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.

1 Kyk, die hand van die HERE is nie te kort om te help nie, en sy oor is nie te swaar om te hoor nie;2 maar julle ongeregtighede het 'n skeidsmuur geword tussen julle en julle God, en julle sondes het sy aangesig vir julle verberg, sodat Hy nie hoor nie.3 Want julle hande is met bloed bevlek en julle vingers met ongeregtigheid; julle lippe spreek leuen, julle tong fluister onreg.4 Daar is niemand wat aanklaag in geregtigheid en niemand wat 'n regstryd voer in waarheid nie; hulle vertrou op nietigheid en spreek valsheid, met moeite gaan hulle swanger en baar onheil.5 Basilisk-eiers broei hulle uit, en spinnerakke weef hulle; hy wat van hulle eiers eet, moet sterwe; en as dit stukkend gedruk word, bars daar 'n adder uit.6 Hulle weefsels deug nie vir klere nie, en met hulle voortbrengsels kan niemand hom toemaak nie; hulle werke is onheilswerke, en die daad van geweld is in hulle hande.7 Hulle voete hardloop om kwaad te doen en is haastig om onskuldige bloed te vergiet; hulle gedagtes is onheilsgedagtes, verwoesting en verbreking is in hulle paaie.8 Die weg van vrede ken hulle nie, en daar is geen reg in hulle spore nie; hulle maak hul paaie krom, niemand wat daarop loop, ken die vrede nie.9 Daarom is die reg ver van ons en bereik die geregtigheid ons nie; ons wag op lig, maar kyk, daar is duisternis; op 'n helder skynsel, maar ons wandel in dikke donkerheid.10 Ons tas rond langs die muur soos blindes, en soos die wat geen oë het nie, tas ons rond; ons struikel op die middag soos in die skemeraand; ons is onder die gesondes soos dooie mense.11 Ons brom almal soos bere, en soos duiwe kir ons aanhoudend; ons wag op reg, maar dit is nie daar nie; op heil -- dit bly ver van ons.12 Want ons oortredinge is baie voor U, en ons sondes getuig teen ons; want ons oortredinge staan voor ons, en ons ongeregtighede -- ons ken hulle:13 die afval en verloëning van die HERE en afwyking van agter onse God; die uitspreek van verdrukking en oortreding, die opneem en uitstoot van leuentaal uit die hart.14 So word dan die reg teruggedring en die geregtigheid bly staan van ver; want die waarheid struikel op die mark, en wat reg is, kan nie binnekom nie.15 Ja, die waarheid word vermis; en wie afwyk van die kwaad, word geplunder. Toe het die HERE dit gesien, en dit was verkeerd in sy oë dat daar geen reg was nie.16 En Hy het gesien dat daar niemand was nie en Hom verbaas dat niemand tussenbei tree nie; daarom het sy arm Hom gehelp en sy geregtigheid het Hom ondersteun.17 En Hy het geregtigheid aangetrek soos 'n pantser, en die helm van heil was op sy hoof; en die klere van wraak het Hy aangetrek as kleding en Hom gewikkel in die ywer soos in 'n mantel.18 Volgens die dade, daarmee ooreenkomstig sal Hy vergelde: grimmigheid aan sy teëstanders, vergelding aan sy vyande; aan die eilande sal Hy die loon vergelde.19 En hulle sal die Naam van die Here vrees van die westekant af, en sy heerlikheid van die opgang van die son af; want Hy sal kom soos 'n saamgeperste stroom wat die asem van die HERE aandrywe.20 Maar vir Sion kom Hy as Verlosser en vir die wat in Jakob hulle bekeer van oortreding, spreek die HERE.21 Wat My aangaan, dit is my verbond met hulle, sê die HERE: My Gees wat op jou is, en my woorde wat Ek in jou mond gelê het, sal uit jou mond nie wyk nie, en ook nie uit die mond van jou kroos en uit die mond van die kroos van jou kroos, sê die HERE, van nou af tot in ewigheid nie.