Isaiah 59:9

American King James Version (1999)

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Cross References

Job 19:8

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

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Isaiah 5:30

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isaiah 59:11

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.

Isaiah 59:14

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

Isaiah 59:8

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

Isaiah 8:21

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Isaiah 8:22

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

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD 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.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you 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!

Jeremiah 8:15

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

Lamentations 3:2

He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Lamentations 4:14

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why look you on them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail on a woman with child; and they shall not escape.