A. 14 And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off:

B. for truth is fallen in the street,
and equity cannot enter.

B’. 15 Yea, truth faileth;
and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:

A’. and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man,
and wondered that there was no intercessor:

A. therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;

B. and his righteousness, it sustained him.

B’. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,

A’. and an helmet of salvation upon his head;