Isaiah 59:9

Therfor doom is made fer fro vs, and riytfulnesse schal not take vs; we abididen liyt, and lo! derknessis ben; we abididen schynyng, and we yeden in derknessis.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

8Thei knewen not the weie of pees, and doom is not in the goyngis of hem; the pathis of hem ben bowid to hem; ech that tredith in tho, knowith not pees.

10We gropiden as blynde men the wal, and we as with outen iyen touchiden; we stumbliden in myddai, as in derknessis, in derk places, as deed men.

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Cross References

Job 19:8He bisette aboute my path, and Y may not go; and he settide derknessis in my weie.

Proverbs 4:19The weie of wickid men is derk; thei witen not where thei schulen falle.

Jeremiah 8:15We abididen pees, and no good was; we abididen tyme of medicyn, and lo! drede is.

Lamentations 3:2Aleph. He droof me, and brouyte in to derknessis, and not in to liyt.

Amos 5:18Wo to hem that desiren the dai of the Lord; wher to desiren ye it to you? This dai of the Lord schal be derknessis, and not liyt.

Habakkuk 1:13Thin iyen ben clene, se thou not yuel, and thou schalt not mowe biholde to wickidnesse. Whi biholdist thou not on men doynge wickidli, and thou art stille, while the vnpitouse man deuourith a more iust man than hymsilf?

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