Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness reach us. 1 We wait for light, but see darkness; we look for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 1

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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

8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths. 1 They have made crooked paths; whoever travels these paths does not know peace. 1

10We grope for the wall like the blind, like those who cannot see. 1 We stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among the strong we are like dead men. 1

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Cross References

Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, 1 and he has set darkness in my path. 1

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness— 1 they do not know what it is they stumble over. 1

Jeremiah 8:15We are hoping for peace, but there will be nothing good. 1 We are hoping for a time of healing, but see, there will be terror.

Lamentations 3:2He drove me away and caused me to walk in darkness rather than light. 1

Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! 1 Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? 1 It will be darkness and not light, 1

Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil, and you are not able to look on wrongdoing with favor; 1 why then have you looked favorably on those who betray? 1 Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they are? 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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