Isaiah 59:9
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.
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Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came ; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
Lamentations 3:2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Amos 5:18Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Habakkuk 1:13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked devoureth the man that is 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 →