Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
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1 Kings 21:11And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
Psalms 119:150They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from thy law.
Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
Hosea 7:1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:10-16
The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 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. 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. 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. 12 For our transgressions… Read the whole commentary →