Isaiah 59:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see 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 looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.
  • 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 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
  • Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to 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 to 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 fled 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, with no brightness in it?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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  • Isa 59:10-12
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    10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.

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

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, 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 do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know 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 health, and behold, trouble!

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Job 37:19
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    19Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for 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 its place,

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

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for 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 belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Isa 64:7
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    7And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Ps 74:9
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    9We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

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

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 3:23
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

  • Job 24:13
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    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of 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 break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 3:4
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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • Job 22:13
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    13And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud?

  • Job 30:26
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    26When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 9:11
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    11Lo, He passes by me, and I see Him not: He goes by also, but I do not perceive Him.