Isaiah 59:14

And mishpat (justice) is turned back, 1 and tzedakah (righteousness) standeth afar off; 1 for emes (truth) is fallen in the rechov (street), 1 and nacho'ach (honesty) cannot enter. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

13In rebelling against and kachash (denying) Hashem, 1 and nasog (turning away) from Eloheinu, 1 speaking oshek (oppression) and sarah (revolt), 1 conceiving and uttering from the lev (heart) divrei sheker (words of falsehood). 1

15Indeed, emes (truth) faileth; 1 and he that departeth from rah (evil) 1 maketh himself a prey; 1 And Hashem saw it, 1 and it was displeasing in His sight 1 that there was no mishpat (justice). 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:11And the anashim of his city, even the zekenim and the chorim (nobles) who were the inhabitants in his city, did just as Izevel had sent unto them, and just as it was written in the sefarim which she had sent unto them.

Psalms 119:150They draw near that follow after wicked schemes; 1 they are far from Thy torah. 1

Isaiah 1:21How is the Kiryah Ne'emanah (Faithful City, i.e., Yerushalayim) become a zonah (harlot)! 1 It was full of mishpat; 1 tzedek lodged in it; 1 but now murderers. 1

Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous chukim, 1 and that write decrees of oppression; 1

Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of oph, 1 so are their batim (houses) full of mirmah; 1 therefore they are become powerful and oshir (rich, wealthy). 1

Hosea 7:1when I would have healed Yisroel, 1 then the avon (iniquity) of Ephrayim was exposed, 1 and the ra'ot (crimes) of Shomron; 1 for they practice sheker; 1 and the ganav intrudes, 1 and the bandit robs bachutz (in the street). 1

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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