9 That is why justice is far away from us,

And righteousness does not overtake us.

We keep hoping for light, but look! there is darkness;

For brightness, but we keep walking in gloom.+

10 We grope for the wall like blind men;

Like those without eyes we keep groping.+

We stumble at high noon as in evening darkness;

Among the strong we are just like the dead.

 9 ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,

‘I will make the sun go down at high noon,

And I will darken the land on a bright day.+