Isaiah 59:15

Trustworthiness has gone away, and he who turns away from evil makes himself a victim. 1 Yahweh saw it and was displeased that there was no justice. 1

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Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

In Context

14Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands far off; 1 for truth stumbles in the public square, and right cannot come. 1

16He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene. 1 Therefore his own arm brought salvation for him, and his righteousness sustained him. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27When her sorrow passed, David sent and took her home to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But what David had done displeased Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 21:7However, Yahweh did not wish to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David; he had promised that he would always give life to him and his descendants.

Psalms 12:1Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared; 1 the faithful have vanished. 1

Isaiah 48:1Hear this, house of Jacob, 1 who are called by the name Israel, and have come from the sperm of Judah; 1 you who swear by the name of Yahweh and invoke the God of Israel, 1 but not sincerely nor in a righteous manner. 1

Isaiah 66:4In the same way I will choose their own punishment; I will bring on them what they fear, 1 because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, no one listened. 1 They did what was evil in my sight, and chose to do what displeases me.” 1

Jeremiah 7:28Say to them: This is a nation that does not listen to the voice of Yahweh its God and does not receive discipline. Truth is destroyed and cut off from their mouths. 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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