Isaiah 59:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Lam 5:16-17 : 16 Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned. 17 For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why `is' this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light, 19 As `when' one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him. 20 Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

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    14And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

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    17For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

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    19Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

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    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

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    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

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    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

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