Isaiah 59:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
  • Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that 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 the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD 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 the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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    10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

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    14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

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

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    17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

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    17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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    19Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

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    27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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    22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

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    19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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    22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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