Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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Job 19:8He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Lamentations 3:2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Habakkuk 1:13Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9
The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 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. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →