They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.