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¹ That it cannot hear. ² So that He will not hear. ³ Your tongue has muttered perversity. ⁴ They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. ⁵ And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. ⁶ And the act of violence is in their hands. ⁷ Wasting and destruction are in their paths. ⁸ Whoever takes that way shall not know peace. ⁹ For brightness, but we walk in blackness! ¹⁰ We are as dead men in desolate places. ¹¹ For salvation, but it is far from us. ¹² And as for our iniquities, we know them: ¹³ Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ¹⁴ And equity cannot enter. ¹⁵ That there was no justice. ¹⁶ And His own righteousness, it sustained Him. ¹⁷ And was clad with zeal as a cloak. ¹⁸ The coastlands He will fully repay. ¹⁹ The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. ²⁰ Says the Lord. ²¹ “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”