Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek after Your decrees.
His sons are far from safety, and crushed at the gate without a deliverer!
The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him. All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
With the pure You are pure, and with the crooked You are shrewd.
The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:
Creating the praise of lips: ‘Shalom, shalom to him who is far and to him who is near,’ says Adonai, ‘and I will heal him.’”
All of us growl like bears or moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
So he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! And send Lazarus so he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, because I am suffering torment in this flame.’
There is no one who understands, no one who seeks after God.