Isaiah 59:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we live in the night.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds.

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness   came.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes  are too pure  to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one  who is wicked swallows up one  who is more righteous than himself?

Micah 1:12

Though the residents of Maroth anxiously wait for something good, disaster has come from the  Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 8:21

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upwards, will curse their king and their God.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look towards the earth  and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the path of peace, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks on them will know peace.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the  Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me away and forced me to walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 4:14

Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

And in that day – this is the declaration of the Lord  God  – I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime.

Job 19:8

He has blocked  my way so that I cannot pass through; he has veiled my paths with darkness.