Isaiah 59:9

Modern English Version

Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil disaster came upon me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Psalm 82:5

“They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land— behold, darkness and sorrow; and the light is darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears and mourn sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned backward, and righteousness stands far off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

Isaiah 8:21

They shall pass through the land hard-pressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they shall be furious and curse their king and their God as they look upward.

Isaiah 8:22

Then they shall look to the earth and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish. And they shall be driven away into darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before He causes darkness and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was nothing good; and for the time of healing, but behold, trouble!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, terror!

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light.

Lamentations 4:14

They wandered, blind, in the streets; they have defiled themselves with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in mid-daylight;

Micah 1:12

Indeed the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because calamity has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours the man who is more righteous than he?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.