Isaiah 59:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

Cross References

Job 19:8

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Job 30:26

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Psalm 82:5

They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Isaiah 5:30

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Isaiah 59:8

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

Isaiah 8:21

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

Isaiah 8:22

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

Jeremiah 8:15

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Lamentations 3:2

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

Lamentations 4:14

They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

Amos 8:9

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

Micah 1:12

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.