Isaiah 59:9

God's Word

That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t reach us. We hope for light, but we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Cross References

Job 19:8

“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.

Job 30:26

When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came.

Psalm 82:5

Wicked people do not know or understand anything. As they walk around in the dark, all the foundations of the earth shake.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of wicked people is like deep darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 5:30

On that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars. If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress. Even the light will be darkened by thick clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it’s far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty can’t come in.

Isaiah 59:8

They don’t know the way of peace. There’s no justice on their highways. They’ve made their paths crooked. Whoever walks on them will never know peace.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up, cursing their king and God.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look at the earth and see only distress and gloom. They will go in anguish and be forced into darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us so hard that we cannot heal? We hope for peace, but no good comes from it. We hope for a time of healing, but there’s only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but nothing good has happened. We hoped for a time of healing, but there’s only terror.

Lamentations 3:2

God has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 4:14

My people staggered blindly through the streets. They were so contaminated with bloodstains that no one would touch their clothes.

Amos 8:9

On that day, declares the Almighty Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Micah 1:12

Wait anxiously for good, inhabitants of Maroth. From the Lord disaster will come on the gates of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You can’t watch wickedness. Why do you keep watching treacherous people? Why are you silent when wicked people swallow those who are more righteous than they are?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.