Isaiah 59:9
For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
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- Isa 5:30 : 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
- Jer 8:15 : 15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
- Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
- Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. 17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light. 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
- Mic 1:12 : 12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
- Hab 1:13 : 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
- 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
- Job 30:26 : 26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
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8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
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14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
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4 For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
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19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
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17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
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17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
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19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
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22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
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13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
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19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
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20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
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22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
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19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
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4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
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7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
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16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
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7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
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9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
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9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
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15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
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2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
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2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
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22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
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23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
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6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;
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13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
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14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
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12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
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16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
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4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
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13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
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26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
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11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.