⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
¹⁰ We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.^(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

⁸ The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,^(A)
who turns darkness^[a] into dawn^(B)
and darkens day into night,^(C)
who summons the water of the sea^(D)
and pours it out over the surface of the earth^(E) –
the Lord is his name.^(F)