Isaiah 59:9

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Therefore is judgment far from us and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

And they shall make a noise against them, that day, like the roaring of the sea. We shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation: and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.

Job 30:26

I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Micah 1:12

For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? Why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? We have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and, behold, trouble.

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, and no good came: for a time of healing, and, behold, fear.

Psalm 82:5

They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Isaiah 8:21

And they shall pass by it; they shall fall, and be hungry. And when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king and their God, and look upwards.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them and they cannot fly away from their distress.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths are become crooked to them: every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

Isaiah 59:11

We shall roar all of us like bears and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment; and there is none: for salvation; and it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street and equity could not come in.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. You shall look for light and he will turn it into the shadow of death and into darkness.

Lamentations 3:2

Aleph. He hath led me and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

Lamentations 4:14

Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it they held up their skirts.

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

Job 19:8

He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass: and in my way he hath set darkness.