Isaiah 59:14
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth bath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 21:11And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them:
Isaiah 1:21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
Isaiah 10:1Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
Jeremiah 5:27As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
Hosea 7:1When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.
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 →