Some scripture for all to read.
Dave.

Isa:59:1: Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Isa:59:2: But your iniquities have separated between you and your
God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isa:59:3: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
Isa:59:4: None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity.
Isa:59:5: They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh
out into a viper.
Isa:59:6: Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
Isa:59:7: Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their paths.
Isa:59:8: The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
Isa:59:9: Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness.
Isa:59:10: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if
we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in
desolate places as dead men.
Isa:59:11: We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look
for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off
from us.
Isa:59:12: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as
for our iniquities, we know them;
Isa:59:13: In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isa:59:14: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isa:59:15: Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there
was no judgment.
Isa:59:16: And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and
his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isa:59:17: For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an
helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isa:59:18: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury
to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will
repay recompence.
Isa:59:19: So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and
his glory from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in
like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against
him.
Isa:59:20: And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that
turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isa:59:21: As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy
seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from
henceforth and for ever.