Isaiah 59:9

American Standard Version 2015

Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness {\i and} distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.\par

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came;\par\tab And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten 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!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; {\i and} for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither do they understand;\par\tab They walk to and fro in darkness:\par\tab All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Isaiah 8:21

And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

Isaiah 8:22

and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness {\i they shall be} driven away.\par

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.\par

Isaiah 59:11

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.

Isaiah 59:14

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Jehovah 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.

Lamentations 3:2

He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Lamentations 4:14

They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood,\par\tab So that men cannot touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

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

Job 19:8

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,\par\tab And hath set darkness in my paths.