Isaiah 59:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  • Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. 17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

    11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • Isa 59:8
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    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

    15Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Lam 5:17
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    17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Job 37:19
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    19Teach us what we shall say unto him; [For] we cannot set [our speech] in order by reason of darkness.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

  • Job 10:22
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    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.

    14Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Job 38:19
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    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Isa 59:4
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    4None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Dan 9:7
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    7O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • Isa 64:7
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    7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

  • Ps 74:9
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    9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • Job 8:9
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Isa 9:2
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    2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 3:23
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    23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:

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    13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

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    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Job 23:8
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    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there] ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

  • Job 22:13
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    13And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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    26When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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    11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.