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.

⁹ And in that day –
this is the declaration of the Lord God –
I will make the sun go down at noon;^(A)
I will darken the land in the daytime.^(B)