Isaiah 59:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 In that day he shalbe so fierce vpon him as the raging of the sea: then one shall beholde the lande, and lo darkenesse and sorow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.
  • Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore. 17 Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Wo vnto you that desire the day of the Lorde, what haue ye to do with it? the day of the Lorde is darkenes, and not light. 19 As if a man dyd flee from a lion, and a beare meete him, & went into the house, and leaned his hand vnto the wal, and a serpent bite hym. 20 Shall not the day of the Lorde be darkenesse, and not light? euen darkenesse and no light in it.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitautes of Maroth wayled for good, but the plague shall come from the Lorde, euen vnto the gates of Hierusalem.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore then doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he?
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.

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    10We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead.

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    8But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.

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    14And therefore is equitie gone aside, and righteousnesse standeth farre of, trueth is fallen downe in the streete, and the thing that is playne and open, may not be shewed.

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    17Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

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    17Wherefore yet our eyes fayled vs, whyles we looked for our vayne helpe, seeing we euer wayted vpon a people that coulde do vs no good.

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    19Teache vs what we shall saye vnto him: for we are vnmeete to frame our talke because of darkenesse.

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