Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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- Isa 5:30 : 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
- Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
- Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
- Lam 5:16-17 : 16 The crown is 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 who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, And not light. 19 As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him. 20 Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, Because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Hab 1:13 : 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
- 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
- Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
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- Isa 59:10-123 verses86%
10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For 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:
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8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
- Isa 59:14-152 verses78%
14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
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4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
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19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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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 healing, and, behold, dismay!
- Lam 4:17-193 verses73%
17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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19 Teach us what we shall tell him; For we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
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27 Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?
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22 The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
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7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
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19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
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20 Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
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19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
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16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
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9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
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15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
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22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
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13 "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
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14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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8 "If I go east, he is not there; If west, I can't find him;
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16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.
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13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.