Isaiah 59:9

New American Bible - revised edition

That is why judgment is far from us and justice does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, and we walk in gloom!

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has barred my way and I cannot pass; veiled my path in darkness;

Job 30:26

Yet when I looked for good, evil came; when I expected light, darkness came.

Psalm 82:5

The gods neither know nor understand, wandering about in darkness, and all the world’s foundations shake.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Isaiah 5:30

They will growl over it, on that day, like the growling of the sea, Look to the land— darkness closing in, the light dark with clouds!

Isaiah 59:11

Like bears we all growl, like doves we moan without ceasing. We cry out for justice, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Judgment is turned away, and justice stands far off; For truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice on their paths; Their roads they have made crooked, no one who walks in them knows peace.

Isaiah 8:21

He will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry, and when hungry, shall become enraged, and curse king and gods. He will look upward,

Isaiah 8:22

and will gaze at the earth, But will see only distress and darkness, oppressive gloom, murky, without light. The Promise of Salvation Under a New Davidic King.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you really cast Judah off? Is Zion loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Jeremiah 8:15

We wait for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Lamentations 3:2

One whom he has driven and forced to walk in darkness, not in light;

Lamentations 4:14

They staggered blindly in the streets, defiled with blood, So that people could not touch even their garments:

Amos 8:9

On that day—oracle of the Lord God— I will make the sun set at midday and in broad daylight cover the land with darkness.

Micah 1:12

The inhabitants of Maroth hope for good, But evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look upon wickedness, and the sight of evil you cannot endure. Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence while the wicked devour those more just than themselves?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.