Isaiah 59:9

For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not,—We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks,—Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well—being.

10We grope, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope,—We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places like the dead!

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Cross References

Job 19:8My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

Proverbs 4:19The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.

Jeremiah 8:15A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare,—For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

Lamentations 3:2Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;

Amos 5:18Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh,—What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light:

Habakkuk 1:13[Thou] whose eyes are too pure to look with approval on wrong, to respect oppression, canst not endure,—Wherefore, shouldst thou respect the treacherous? Be silent, when the lawless, swalloweth up, one more righteous than he?

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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