Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is mishpat (justice) far from us, 1 neither doth tzedakah overtake us; 1 we wait for ohr, but, hinei, choshech; 1 for negohot (brightness), but we walk in gloom. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8Of the Derech Shalom they have no da'as; 1 and there is no mishpat (justice) in their circuits; 1 they have made themselves crooked roads; 1 whosoever walketh thereon shall not know shalom. 1

10We grope by the wall like the ivrim (blind), 1 and we grope as if we had no einayim (eyes); 1 we stumble at tzohorayim (noon) as in twilight; 1 we are in full vigor and stout, yet we are as mesim (dead ones). 1

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Cross References

Job 19:8He hath fenced around my way that I cannot pass, 1 and set choshech in my paths. 1

Proverbs 4:19The derech resha'im is as deep darkness; 1 they know not at what they stumble. 1

Jeremiah 8:15We looked for shalom, but no tov came; 1 and for et marpeh (a time of healing), and, hinei, terror! 1

Lamentations 3:2He hath driven me away, and brought me 1 into choshech, but not into ohr. 1

Amos 5:18Hoy unto you that desire the Yom Hashem! 1 Why do ye seek it? 1 The Yom Hashem is choshech, and not ohr. 1

Habakkuk 1:13Thou art of eyes of tehor (pureness), not to behold rah, 1 and canst not look on wickedness; 1 why lookest Thou upon them that deal treacherously, 1 and holdest Thy tongue when the rasha devoureth the tzaddik, 1 the man that is more righteous than he? 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →

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