Isaiah 59:14

And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight path.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

In Context

13We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

15And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside their mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:11And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.

Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city Zion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

Isaiah 10:1Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

Jeremiah 5:27As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

Hosea 7:1When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber spoiling in his way;

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 →

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