Isaiah 59:9

New International Version

So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

Job 30:26

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

Psalm 82:5

“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

Isaiah 59:14

So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.

Isaiah 8:21

Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

Isaiah 8:22

Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

Lamentations 4:14

Now they grope through the streets as if they were blind. They are so defiled with blood that no one dares to touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Micah 1:12

Those who live in Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the Lord, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.