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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- 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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10 We 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].
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.
12 For 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;
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8 The 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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14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, 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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4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
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19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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17 ¶ For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
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15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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17 As 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].
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.
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27 ¶ Why 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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22 A 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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7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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13 As [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.
14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
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19 Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,
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20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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22 And 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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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!
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4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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7 O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, 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.
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16 Give glory to the LORD 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.
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7 And [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, because of our iniquities.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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9 We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
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15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
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9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
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2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
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2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
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6 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:
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13 ¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
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8 ¶ Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.