No one calls for righteousness, and no one judges with truth. Trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Surely, they plotted to cast him down from his exaltation; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their inward parts. Selah.
We conceived; we writhed; as it were, we gave birth to wind. We have not worked salvation for the earth; and those living in the world have not fallen.
Because you have said, We have cut a covenant with death; and, We have made a vision with Sheol, when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made the lie our refuge, and we have hidden in falsehood.
For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it is turning you back; and you said in your heart, I am and there is none besides.
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
And He saw that there was no man, and He was astonished that there was no intercessor. And His own arm saved for Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.
And there is not one who calls on Your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away into the hand of our iniquities.
For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.
Roam around in Jerusalem’s streets and see now, and know, and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
Sons of Israel, hear the Word of Jehovah, for Jehovah has a quarrel with those living in the land; for there is no truth, and no mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.