Isaiah 59:14
And judgment is removed backward, || And righteousness stands far off, || For truth has been feeble in the street, || And straightforwardness is not able to enter,
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1 Kings 21:11And the men of his city, the elderly and the nobles who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel has sent to them, as written in the letters that she sent to them,
Psalms 119:150My wicked pursuers have been near, || They have been far off from Your law.
Isaiah 1:21How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, || Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers.
Isaiah 10:1“Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, || And writers who have prescribed perverseness,
Jeremiah 5:27As a cage full of birds, || So their houses are full of deceit, || Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
Hosea 7:1“When I give healing to Israel, || Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, || And the wickedness of Samaria, || For they have worked falsehood, || And a thief comes in, || A troop has stripped off in the street,
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 →